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This story is of interest to those who want to read further about Ebola. It has been picked up from the East Africa.  "In Summary The vaccine is produced by Johnson & Johnson and is different from the single dose Merck vaccine that has been used over the past year in DR Congo. The health authorities in Rwanda have also ordered 100,000 doses of the vaccine for a similar campaign targeting traders. Response teams would then expand vaccination to whole villages where Ebola cases are confirmed. More than 60,000 traders in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo who cross the border regularly into Rwanda and Uganda are to be vaccinated to curb an Ebola outbreak. Cases recorded recently in the Congolese trading hub of Goma, which is on Rwanda’s border, and have raised concerns of cross-border spread. According to Jean Jacques Muyembe, the co-ordinator of the Ebola response in DR Congo - where the virus has killed more than 1,900 in the last year - the ...

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has put in place measures to manage Ebola in case it appears in the country.  This done with the help a nd support from Development Partners. The Government of Uganda, determines whether an event constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). It set up the National Ebola Preparedness and Response Contingency Plan, which combats the spread should there be a case. It has also put the health workers in various facilities on high alert to be watchful of various patients taken ill. These are called Ebola Treatment Units (ETU). That part of a team that scours the country in case of emergency is called the Ebola Rapid Response Team (RRTs). For more, please follow this link. On top of physical structures, the MoH sends out regular notices and has a hotline operated by an Emergency Operations Centre. The public is argued to remain vigilant and report any suspected cases of persons presenting symptoms a...