A health official screens a traveller for Ebola at the Busia One Stop post on the Kenya-Uganda border on October 12, 2026. [AFP]
It has emerged that passengers are concealing travel histories and contacts, attempting to evade quarantine, further complicating the fight against Ebola.
Also, the travellers are suppressing fever with paracetamol, testing the limits of East Africa’s fight against Ebola.
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