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| PRESS CONTACT: Division of Media Relations CDC, Office of Communication (404) 639鈥?286 |
An outbreak of an unusual severe febrile illness characterized by gastroenteritis, headache, conjunctivitis, and occasional
hemorrhagic signs with significant mortality was reported to the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Kampala on October 8, 2000, in Gulu District, Uganda.
The clinical suspicion of hemorrhagic fever was confirmed on October 15, when the National Institute of Virology (South Africa) identified Ebola
virus infection among specimens from a cluster of cases, including student nurses at St. Mary's Hospital. This report describes the control
activities in three affected districts and preliminary clinical and epidemiologic findings of the Uganda MOH in conjunction with the international
epidemic response team. As of January 23, 2000, a total of 425 cases of Ebola hemorrhagic fever were recorded from three districts in Uganda, the
last case had onset on January 9, 2001.
Vermont program targets abusers for prevention messages, rather than just children who have been victims of child abuse.
| PRESS CONTACT: Joan Tabachnick, M.P.P.M. STOP IT NOW! (413) 268鈥?096 (Alternate: Lisa Chasan-Taber, Sc.D., University of Massachusetts, (413) 545鈥?664) |
Public Health campaigns have targeted adults to prevent drinking and driving, smoking, and HIV transmission. However, adults
have not been targeted to prevent child sexual abuse. STOP IT NOW!'s innovative social marketing campaign challenges abusers and people who know
abusers to stop child sexual abuse. One measure of the pilot media and outreach campaign's success in Vermont is whether people who abuse would
seek out help without a report from a victim. Over two years 50 persons self-disclosed sexual abusing behaviors without a victim report. The data
of this report indicates that some adults who abuse will voluntarily turn themselves in for treatment and some parents will intervene to seek help
for their children with sexual behavior problems even without a victim report. Programs that target abusers and people who know abusers may offer
new prevention strategies.
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