Uganda is readying itself for the Ebola virus to enter the country through the border with US (DRC), which is continuously used by farmers, merchants, traders and refugees. The Ugandan Health Ministry has started immunising health workers in border districts and Ebola treatment units have been opened at local hospitals. The DRC is struggling to contain an outbreak of Ebola that, for the first time, could be beyond control and become entrenched in the population, Robert Redfield, director of the the Democratic Republic of Congo-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned.
Uganda is readying itself for the Ebola virus to enter the country through the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which is continuously used by farmers, merchants, traders and refugees. The Ugandan Health Ministry has started immunising health workers in border districts and Ebola treatment units have been opened at local hospitals. The DRC is struggling to contain an outbreak of Ebola that, for the first time, could be beyond control and become entrenched in the population, Robert Redfield, director of the US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned.