/ 15 November 2000

‘EBOLA COULD HAVE CROSSED BORDER’

UGANDA’S health ministry has warned Kenyan authorities that seven Kenyan nationals may have come into contact with the deadly Ebola virus after attending the funeral of a woman who died of the killer disease. Ugandan officials said she was the same woman who had unwittingly spread the epidemic when she fled the centre of the outbreak in the Ugandan town of Gulu to her home district in a vain attempt to escape the disease. 110 people have died in the latest outbreak. – Reuters