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Via the BBC:
Public health officials in Uganda are battling an outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus. There have been 14 confirmed deaths at the time of this writing:
Officials say most are linked to one family, who may have contracted the virus while attending a funeral.
Another suspected infection, at Kampala’s Mulago hospital, is also being investigated by doctors, says the BBC’s Catherine Byaruhanga in the capital.
Ebola is one of the world’s most virulent diseases. A form of hemorrhagic fever, Ebola can incubate for up to three weeks before symptoms emerge, which begin with fever, rashes and head and body aches followed by bloody vomit and almost always death. There’s no cure, and 90 percent of those infected die within two weeks of the onset of symptoms.
While an international outbreak is always a possibility in the age of global travel, most Ebola outbreaks end very quickly.… Read the rest
