Ebola outbreak in Uganda
claims at least 14 lives as health officials battle to stem spread of deadly
virusTerrified patients fled from a hospital in western Uganda as soon as news broke that a mysterious illness
that killed at least 14 people in the region was Ebola, one of the world's most virulent diseases.
Ignatius Besisira, a member of parliament for Buyaga East County in the Kibaale district, said people had at first believed the unexplained deaths were related to witchcraft. "Immediately, when there was confirmation that it was Ebola … patients ran out of Kagadi hospital (where some of the victims had died)," he told the Guardian. "Even the medical officers are very, very frightened," he said... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/29/ebola-uganda-outbreak-
