Volume 4 Issue 2 April-June 2019

UNIPH Quarterly Epidemiological Bulletin (UQEB) Volume 4 Issue 2 April-June 2019

Dear Reader,
We are pleased to share with you Issue 4, Volume 2 of the UQEB. In this issue, we present a variety 
of issues including: Articles on investigation of Anthrax, O’nyong nyong, Plague and Leprosy. We also 
highlight the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in neighbouring DRC which spilled over into Uganda on 
11 June 2019. We wish to express utmost gratitude to Dr Bao-Ping Zhu for his committed and passionate 
service while with the Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program as US-CDC Resident Advisor over the 
last five years and wish him many blessings in his next endeavours. For further information on 
anything in this publications please con-tact us on: dorynegona@musph.ac.ug, 
yvettewibaba-ra@musph.ac.ug, pmuwereza@musph.ac.ug, muse-waa@musph.ac.ug, OR lbulage@musph.ac.ug
We hope this will be an informative and enjoyable read and shall appreciate hearing back from you.
Thank You.

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Editorial Team

Patrick K. Tusiime |
Commissioner, National Disease Control, 
MoH

Dr. Alex Riolexus Ario |
Field Coordinator, Uganda Public Health 
Fellowship Program, MoH

Ms. Lilian Bulage |
Scientific Writer, Uganda Public Health 
Fellowship Program, MoH

Dr. Benon Kwesiga |
Field Supervisor, Uganda Public Health 
Fellowship Program, MoH



Mr. Daniel Kadobera |
Field Supervisor, Uganda Public Health 
Fellowship Program, MoH

Ms. Doreen N. Gonahasa |
PHFP Fellow, Infectious Diseases 
Institute

Dr. Yvette Wibabara |
PHFP Fellow, AIDS Control Program, MoH

Dr. Peter Muwereza |
PHFP Fellow, AIDS Control Program, MoH

Ms. Angella Musewa|
PHFP Fellow, National Animal Disease 
Diagnostics and Epidemiology Centre, 
MAAIF