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Uganda: Ebola death toll up to 28

The death toll in the Ebola outbreak in western Uganda has risen to 28 out of 112 people infected with the deadly virus, with a sense of fear spreading among the population, officials said.

11 Dec 2007

An isolation ward in Uganda. Medical staff have been infected because this outbreak of Ebola presented different symptoms (Image: WHO)

Sam Okware, head of the country's taskforce on the Ebola outbreak, said his office was receiving calls from around the country, with people believing that any ailment involving blood was Ebola, a haemorrhagic fever that has spread mainly in the western district of Bundibugyo.

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