The Ebola outbreak in an East African country Uganda has come to an end according to the World Health Organisation announcement published on Monday. The Ebola hemorrhagic fever hit the people of Kibaale district in western Uganda in August, 2012, killing 17 people and scores of others were successfully treated. Ebola spreads by direct contact […]
Grief has befallen on the people of Ntungamo in Western Uganda following an outbreak of Ebola in in Kibutamo LCI in Ntungamo District. The reports from this district indicate that over 10 people have died of suspected Ebola and over 35 others are admitted at the different health centres in the district. The dead […]
Following an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda, the Uganda Prisons authorities banned all visits to prisons including Luzira prison. But the FDC president Col. Kiiza Besigye says this could be a ploy by the government to block the assistance FDC has been sending to political prisons whom president Museveni’s government imprisoned without trial. However […]
Our reporters visited Cairo Bank, Stanbic bank and Equity Bank among others and found out that all the bank tellers were putting on gloves due to an outbreak of Ebola. One of the managers of Equity Bank told us that there is a fear that Ebola would come from money yet they want their […]
The ministry of Health has finally come out to explain why the deadly Ebola broke out in Kibaale two weeks back. The ministry says that Ebola has killed over 25 people in Kabaale and Kampala due to the delay by the ministry workers who took long to discover that the strange disease that had […]
Ebola is caused by an infection. These are types of the Ebola in humans: Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, and Ebola-Ivory Coast. The origin, locations, and natural habitat of the Ebola disease are still unknown. But researchers suspect that it lives in animals. The known first case of Ebola in the world occurred in the Zaire (currently Democratic […]
The Ministry of Health together with health supporting donors have declared Uganda Ebola free, following the Ebola outbreak On May 6th 2011 in Luwero district that claimed one life and left many others hospitalized over the disease. Speaking to journalists in Kampala, the minister of state for health in charge of general duties, Dr. Richard Nduhura said although they are […]