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Ebola confirmed far from outbreak
Death toll hits 80; 251 infected
Families of Ebola victims camp outside the Ebola ward at Gulu Hospital.
MSNBC NEWS SERVICES
KAMPALA, Uganda, Nov. 1 - The Ebola fever epidemic that has killed 80
people in northern Uganda has now spread to the far south of the country
with a confirmed death in the town of Mbarara, health officials said
Wednesday.
A SOLDIER who had been based at the army barracks in Gulu, the
center of the epidemic, became ill after moving to the barracks in Mbarara,
said Sam Okware, director general for health services in Uganda's Ministry
of Health.
"He was in quite bad shape, and there was a high degree of suspicion
it might be Ebola," Okware said. "We took some samples from him to Gulu, to
the CDC mobile lab, which confirmed he was antigen positive."
The soldier died last Friday in Mbarara University Hospital, the main
hospital in the area, about five days after showing typical Ebola symptoms
of high fever, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Okware said.
Ebola causes what's known as a hemorrhagic fever, where the victims
literally "bleed out" through every orifice. There is no known cure for the
Ebola.
Despite many earlier false alarms, that was the first confirmed case
outside the northern district of Gulu, where the outbreak began in
September. The death toll from the outbreak rose to 80 after five more
people died in the past 24 hours. Twelve new cases were also identified in
the same period, bringing the number of known cases to 251, health officials
said.
Virus hunters track Ebola
The death in the busy commercial town of Mbarara, 265 miles south of
Gulu, and about 25 miles north of the Tanzanian border, will heighten
concerns about the disease spreading farther.
Okware said a team from the Health Ministry was on its way to
Mbarara, and he had asked for help from the World Health Organization and
the French medical relief agency Doctors Without Borders.
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The first Ebola outbreaks occurred simultaneously in 1976 in Zaire,
now called Congo, and Sudan. It has been three years since the last outbreak
of the Ebola, in Gabon, when 10 people died. In all, there have been 800
deaths from the virus in Africa to date.
Health authorities are providing Ugandans with information on the
disease via a telephone hotline and a Web site .
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
WashPost
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