The most obvious is the disease itself. Ebola is a serious disease with an average mortality rate of 50%. Previous outbreaks have resulted in thousands of deaths. (Hantavirus also has a high mortality rate, but it generally does not spread so easily between humans.)
Between 2014 and 2016, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa caused more than 11,000 deaths. A recent outbreak, which occurred between 2018 and 2020, killed 2,299 people before being brought under control with a vaccination campaign.
But those outbreaks were caused by the Zaire virus, which has a different genetic sequence. There is no vaccine for Bundibugyo virus. We don’t know whether the two vaccines approved for Zaire can also work for Bundibugyo. There are concerns that they could make the situation worse by interfering with a person’s immune response to the virus.
scientists are working on it Potential Bundibugyo Vaccines. But the most advanced efforts are still far from clinical trials. There are also no specific antiviral treatments for the virus.
So to control the outbreak, health care workers are trying to prevent the spread of the disease. Ebolavirus can be transmitted to humans by animals including fruit bats, chimpanzees, and gorillas. They can then spread between people through contact with bodily fluids such as blood or vomit.
That’s why the virus often spreads among family members, health care workers, and during some burial services. WHO gives advice Isolating people who have the virus in treatment centers. For example, it also recommends safe burial measures that limit physical contact with the deceased. Communities must be informed about the virus and how it spreads, and health professionals must be prepared to diagnose and track cases.
All this is easier said than done in the age of misinformation. Some members of the community also Doubt whether the disease is real or not. There have been three attacks on health care facilities in the region in recent weeks.
