/ 24 October 2000

UGANDA EBOLA CASES UP TO 160

ONE death and a further 11 cases of the gruesome Ebola disease have been reported in northern Uganda, bringing the total number of known infected people in the outbreak, which has killed 55 people, to 160. No cure exists for Ebola, a viral infection which causes fever, diarrhoea, vomiting and eventual severe haemorrhaging of internal organs. – AFP