NAIROBI - Uganda has had 119 cases of a new strain of Ebola fever that has killed 35 people, the east African country's Health Ministry said on Friday.
All the cases since the outbreak began in August have been in remote western Bundibugyo district, which borders Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), except for a doctor who died in the capital Kampala after returning from that area.
"The Ministry of Health continues to urge the public to avoid unnecessary movements and gatherings especially in the districts around Bundibugyo," the ministry said in a statement.
It urged all local health officers to remain on alert and called on the public to bring to their attention anyone suffering symptoms including very high fever, diarrhoea or vomiting associated with red eyes and a measles-like rash.
The last Ebola outbreak in Uganda was in 2000, when 425 people caught it and more than half died.
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