Sudan Ebola virus (SUDV) outbreak in Uganda, 2022: lessons learnt and future priorities for sub-Saharan Africa

Godfrey Bwire; Benn Sartorius; Philippe Guerin; Merawi Aragaw Tegegne; Sam I Okware; Ambrose O Talisuna

doi:10.1186/s12916-023-02847-1

Sudan Ebola virus (SUDV) outbreak in Uganda, 2022: lessons learnt and future priorities for sub-Saharan Africa

BMC Med. 2023 Apr 13;21(1):144. doi: 10.1186/s12916-023-02847-1.

Authors

Godfrey Bwire^{1

2}, Benn Sartorius³, Philippe Guerin^{3

4}, Merawi Aragaw Tegegne⁵, Sam I Okware⁶, Ambrose O Talisuna⁷

Affiliations

¹ Division of Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda. gbwire1@yahoo.com.
² Department of Community Health and Behavioural Sciences, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda. gbwire1@yahoo.com.
³ Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁴ Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO), Oxford, UK.
⁵ Division of Emergency Preparedness & Response, Africa Union/Africa CDC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁶ Uganda National Health Research Organization (UNHRO), Entebbe, Uganda.
⁷ World Health Organization, Liaison Office to the African Union (AU) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

No abstract available

Keywords: Africa; Biosafety; Biosecurity; Ebola; Infection prevention and control; Outbreak; Sub-Saharan Africa; Sudan Ebola virus; Uganda; Viral haemorrhagic fever.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Disease Outbreaks
Ebolavirus*
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola* / epidemiology
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola* / prevention & control
Humans
Uganda / epidemiology

Grants and funding

001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International