FOUR people have died in Uganda in the last 24 hours after contracting Ebola fever, bringing the total death toll to 96, the health ministry said. Three of the dead were from the northern Ugandan district of Gulu, which is at the centre of an epidemic of the highly contagious and often fatal Ebola epidemic since it broke out there in mid-September. The fourth death occurred in the southwestern Ugandan town of Mbarara, raising the fatality toll there to two. All the others occurred in Gulu. There have also been a total of 291 reported cases of the haemorrhagic viral disease in the country since the epidemic began. – AFP