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/ 16 December 2007

Inside Ebola’s zone of death

It is a country where the president has asked people to stop shaking hands, where MPs have called for an end to public gatherings, market vendors wear gloves and Roman Catholic priests no longer give the communion wafers and wine by hand. Uganda is gripped by terror over a new strain of one of the world’s most deadly diseases.

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/ 4 December 2007

Just another day at the Tiriri health centre

A blue pick-up truck pulls to a sudden halt outside Tiriri health centre in Uganda. Many hands surround it, lift the woman lying in the back and carry her inside to the examination room. She cannot speak and her breathing is laboured. Sister Mary Magdalene Anyait, the only member of the medical staff, has a look and takes the woman’s blood pressure.

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