updated 3:48 PM EDT, Sun July 29,
2012
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Patients did not show some typical symptoms, the health minister says
- The lethal Ebola virus left at least 14 people dead in western Uganda this month
- The cases have emerged in Kibaale, a district in midwestern Uganda
- The Ebola virus is considered a highly infectious disease spread through direct contact
Patients had fevers and
were vomiting, but did not show other typical symptoms like hemorrhaging, Health
Minister Dr. Christine Ondoa said.
....
Officials are trying to
determine the extent of the outbreak, CDC spokesman Tom Skinner said
Sunday.
About five people from
the Atlanta-based centers were expected to join a group of CDC staffers who are
permanently based in Uganda, Skinner said.
"These outbreaks have a
tendency to sort of stamp themselves out, if you will, if we can get in and sort
of stop the chain of transmission," he said.
Ondoa described the
Ebola-Sudan strain detected as "mild" compared to other types of Ebola, noting
that victims' lives can be saved with intervention....
