Incidence and predictors of Sudan ebolavirus transmission among contacts in Uganda in 2022: a retrospective cohort study.

Summary: Imagine someone in your family gets sick with a dangerous virus called Ebola. Doctors will watch you very closely to see if you catch it too. Usually, they check on people for 21 days. But during a 2022 outbreak in Uganda, doctors looked at over 3,000 people who were near someone with Ebola. They found out that people were still getting sick up to 28 days later! Also, men and people who had very close contact were much more likely to catch the virus. Because of this, doctors might need to watch people for a longer time—at least 28 days—to keep everyone safe.