Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2010)

Proportion of Deaths and Clinical Features in Bundibugyo Ebola Virus Infection, Uganda

  • Adam MacNeil,
  • Eileen C. Farnon,
  • Joseph F. Wamala,
  • Sam Okware,
  • Deborah L. Cannon,
  • Zachary Reed,
  • Jonathan S. Towner,
  • Jordan W. Tappero,
  • Julius Lutwama,
  • Robert Downing,
  • Stuart T. Nichol,
  • Thomas G. Ksiazek,
  • Pierre E. Rollin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1612.100627
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 12
pp. 1969 – 1972

Abstract

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The first known Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) outbreak caused by Bundibugyo Ebola virus occurred in Bundibugyo District, Uganda, in 2007. Fifty-six cases of EHF were laboratory confirmed. Although signs and symptoms were largely nonspecific and similar to those of EHF outbreaks caused by Zaire and Sudan Ebola viruses, proportion of deaths among those infected was lower (≈40%).

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