Uganda Says Suspected Ebola Cases Rises Up To 94 22dead

Uganda says suspected Ebola cases rise to 94, 22 dead
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KAMPALA (Reuters) - A new strain of the deadly Ebola virus is thought to have infected 94 people and killed at least 22 in Uganda, prompting neighboring Kenya to begin screening at its shared border, officials said on Thursday.

Dr. Sam Zaramba, Uganda's director of health services, told Reuters a doctor had died in Kampala's Mulago Hospital after looking after a patient in its isolation ward. Three other medical staff died after treating infected patients.

Besides the doctor and patient in Mulago, all other cases and deaths had occurred where the outbreak started in Uganda's western Bundibugyo district, bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo, he said.

"We've had one more admission today, someone in Bundibugyo. It is 94, now," Zaramba said.

"Twenty two have died. Out of them, four (are) health workers, one a doctor. He died in Mulago," Zaramba said earlier.

Only 58 cases have so far been confirmed in laboratory tests, Uganda says. But more people falling ill and a rising death toll since the outbreak started in August has caused panic in the east African country.

Neighboring Kenya has been screening travelers entering from Uganda at the Busia crossing -- on the main road out of Kenya's west into east and central Africa -- since last week, health officials said.

"Screening is going on at Busia. People are being asked questions about where they have traveled and their health," Kenya's head of medical services, Dr. James Nyikal, told Reuters. Continued...


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