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The outbreak, announced by U.S. and Ugandan health officials on Thursday, is in Bundibugyo, near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The outbreak, announced by U.S. and Ugandan health officials on Thursday, is in Bundibugyo, near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo.
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WHO's concern is that Bundibugyo, which is infested with Sudan - backed rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces, might be susceptible to the disease, being in a border area with the DRC where displaced people both within Uganda and the DRC move to and fro across the frontier.
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Last year, an outbreak of a new strain of Ebola killed 37 people and infected 149 in Bundibugyo - a remote district close to the Congolese border, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Kampala.
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"Ninety-three have fitted in the diagnosis of Ebola - including 22 dead. 38 have been admitted to health centers in Bundibugyo where isolation units have been set up," he told AFP.
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Authorities have deployed medics to Uganda's Bundibugyo district, on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the strain was first reported, said Sam Zaramba, director of medical services.
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Because no one can explain how the disease entered Bundibugyo - seven years after it killed at least 170 people in northern Uganda - it is now the job of the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to scour the district for clues.
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Meanwhile, epidemiologists and virologists are in Bundibugyo district to try to trace backwards the source of the virus as part of a campaign to avoid future outbreaks.
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Ebola that broke out in September in western Bundibugyo district has killed 22 of the 93 infected people as the microbe meanders through the region, where sterile techniques are rare, thus making hospitals unsafe.
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Bundibugyo district, home to 250,000 people and epicentre of the disease, with many villagers unwilling to cooperate with medical detectives, they said.
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