Article 64FD2 Health workers among dead in Ugandan Ebola outbreak

Health workers among dead in Ugandan Ebola outbreak

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Harriet Nankya in Kampala and Kaamil Ahmed
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It seems like a normal day in Mubende, central Uganda. Shops remain open, children are at school and public gatherings are allowed, provided people remain socially distant.

The ambulances that whisk past every few hours and the health workers who wash themselves meticulously before they return home are the only indications that it is not business as usual in the densely populated mining district, which is struggling to contain an outbreak of Ebola.

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