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The new cases bring the cumulative total of those
infected to 33, including 16 who have died since the outbreak of Ebola
virus.
Health officials have so far tracked down 176 contacts that are being followed up on a daily basis to ensure that any developing Ebola signs are treated immediately According to health officials, 16 samples have been collected by the team of experts in western Uganda from people suspected of having the disease for analysis while surveillance continues.
Seven doctors who were attending to a clinical officer with the Ebola virus and other members of staff have been withdrawn from service and are being monitored by health officials.
According to the country’s commissioner for health services, the doctors and members of staff who have been withdrawn from service will be kept out for twenty one days to allow medical experts monitor their biological patterns.
The Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has in a matter of national emergency warned all Ugandans to guard against promiscuity and body contact as one of the ways experts believe the Ebola virus spreads from one person to another.
Doctors across the country are increasingly getting worried about the fast spreading hemorrhagic Ebola virus as the death toll rises to 16 in just one week
Doctors without borders have already arrived in the country to help the team of experts from W.H.O in the west of the country to contain the outbreak.http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/08/01/253943/uganda-ebola-on-rise/
