Experts Work to End Ebola Outbreak
International health workers set about taming a deadly Ebola outbreak in northern Uganda, hoping to end new cases within a month. The highly contagious virus has killed 47 people and infected as many as 75 others in the Gulu area, 225 miles north of the capital, Kampala. Experts from the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Doctors Without Borders began their work while Ugandans went hut to hut searching for victims and teaching about the dangers of Ebola, a type of hemorrhagic fever.
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