KAMPALA (AFP) — A virus that killed 16 people and infected more than 50 others in western Uganda has been confirmed as Ebola, the health ministry said Thursday.
The deadly virus was confirmed in samples flown to a laboratory in Atlanta in the United States, the ministry said.
“We have been on the ground and we are deploying more people to manage the situation,” said Sam Zaramba, the country’s top medical official.
Zaramba said the first case was reported on November 10 in Bundibugyo district on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, where three patients were currently in an isolation ward.
“It is a dangerous disease as is any other haemorrhagic fever, but the …
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