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Uganda's Frontline Health Workers Battle Ebola Spread

Halima Athumani

   KASESE, UGANDA - Health officials in Uganda have mobilized against
   Ebola after it spread across the border from the outbreak in the
   Democratic Republic of Congo. Frontline workers are risking their lives
   to stop the deadly virus, which has killed 1,400 people in the DRC and
   two in Uganda.

   Ugandan health worker Masereka Robinson makes daily visits on foot to
   educate families in Kisinga subcounty about Ebola, including the family
   that brought the deadly virus into Uganda.

   The family's visit to an infected relative in the neighboring
   Democratic Republic of Congo cost them a child and a grandmother.

   Ugandan health workers are vaccinating those who come in contact with
   Ebola, including themselves, with the help of the World Health
   Organization.

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