The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked U.S. health care practitioners to be on the lookout for signs of the disease in Uganda.
There are members of the Ugandan medical staff in the ward.
The CDC issued a health advisory Thursday to remind clinicians about best practices, and said it was communicating with public health departments and healthcare workers to raise awareness about the outbreak in Uganda.
Passengers flying from Uganda to the U.S. will be routed to five airports in the New York City area, Atlanta, Chicago or Washington for health screenings.
The embassy said that the risk of the disease in Uganda is low.
According to the CDC, there have been 44 confirmed cases of the disease in Uganda, with 10 deaths and 20 probable deaths in the last month.
The CDC said health care providers should ask patients if they have traveled recently to countries where there is a risk of contracting the disease.
Uganda's Ministry of Health declared an outbreak of the disease on September 20 after Sudan's species of the disease began to spread. The first confirmed case was a 25-year-old man who lived in the district and died the same day he tested positive, with an investigation revealing several other unexplained deaths in the community. The most recent outbreak of the Sudan virus, which took place in 2012 and was effectively contained, was the fifth outbreak of the disease in Uganda. In 1976, the first case of the disease was found in a village near the river in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Over the past several decades, there have been several instances of the disease in Africa.
A total of 28,609. That is how many people were affected by the world's largest outbreak of the disease in West Africa. More than 11,000 people died from the outbreak and four cases were confirmed in the US in the same year.
The beginning of the West African epidemic was marked by the World Health Organization's detection of cases of the disease. The United States, Italy, the United Kingdom and Spain are some of the countries where infections are spreading. According to the CDC, the first time the disease was spread from rural to urban areas was during the health crisis. Poor public health infrastructure is one of the reasons the disease spread quickly.
The World Health Organization said last week that a clinical trial of two experimental vaccines could soon begin. There are two vaccines that protect against the Zaire species, but they don't protect against the Sudan species.
The U.S. health officials want people to be alert for the spread of the disease.
There is an experimental vaccine trial in Uganda.
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