Tanzania has urged its citizens, especially at its borders, to be vigilant following the Uganda outbreak.
It has also called for screening at its borders and public education on Ebola symptoms. In a statement, Health Deputy Minister Godwin Mollel said, “I call upon all medical officers to provide public education on the disease, monitor it, and undertake investigations in their respective areas.” Uganda outbreak Ebola is an often fatal viral haemorrhagic fever. Uganda outbreak, The death rate is typically high, ranging up to 90 percent in some outbreaks, according to the World Health Organization. First identified in 1976 in the DRC, the virus, whose natural host is the bat, has since set off a series of epidemics in Africa, killing around 15,000 people. Human transmission is through body fluids, with the main symptoms being fever, vomiting, bleeding and diarrhoea.
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