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Visitors with Ebola symptoms to be isolated, say health officials

WHO Regional Director for Africa Dr Matshidiso Moeti. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

The outbreak of Ebola in neighbouring Uganda has forced the Ministry of Health to heighten surveillance at the border points to prevent the risk spreading to Kenya.

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the rare Sudan strain that has since killed a 24-year-old man whom Diana Atwine, the Permanent Secretary in Uganda's Ministry of Health, said hailed from central Mubende district and had Ebola symptoms namely high fever, diarrhea, vomiting blood and abdominal pains.

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