November 11, 2009
THE Government has sent a team to Mityana to investigate an outbreak of Ebola. The Commissioner of community health, Dr. Sam Okware, said the health ministry sent a surveillance team to carry out precautionary measures if Ebola was confirmed. This was after reports this week that Jackie Tumuhairwe, a suspected case, was brought to Mityana [...]
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November 7, 2009
US military officials sent a medical team to a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan this week to take blood samples from members of an army unit after a soldier in the unit died from an Ebola-like virus. Dr Jim Radike, an expert in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Role 3 Trauma Hospital at [...]
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