Update on Ebola virus disease (Sudan ebolavirus) outbreak in central Uganda

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Distributed via the CDC Health Alert Network
  
  November 7, 2022, 9:15 AM ET
  
  CDCHAN-00480
  
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is issuing this Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Update as a follow-up to a HAN Health Advisory (Outbreak of Ebola virus disease (Sudan ebolavirus) in Central Uganda) issued on October 6, 2022. This Health Update serves to inform public health departments, public health laboratories, and clinicians in the United States about the ongoing outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Uganda caused by Sudan virus (species Sudan ebolavirus). No suspect or confirmed EVD cases related to this outbreak have been reported in the United States (U.S.) or other countries outside of Uganda to date. However, as a precaution because of increasing cases in Uganda, CDC is communicating with public health departments, public health laboratories, and healthcare workers in the United States to provide an update and raise awareness of this outbreak and the potential for importation of cases.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Disease Outbreaks Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola
• Source:
  HAN ; 480
• Document Type:
  Webpage
• Name as Subject:
  Uganda
• Issue:
  480
• Collection(s):
  Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
• Main Document Checksum:
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