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DIED. MATTHEW LUKWIYA, Ugandan doctor who led the country's fight to contain an Ebola outbreak that began in September; days after showing symptoms of the disease; in Gulu, Uganda. Lukwiya, who was in his early 40s, was the first to recognize that people were contracting the virus and is credited for the relatively low death toll, which reached 156 last week...
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO IDI AMIN, THE FORMER UGANDAN DICTATOR...
...Whatever happened to Idi Amin, the former Ugandan dictator...
...Ugandan health officials suspected, and tests in South Africa two weeks ago confirmed, that this ghost was real and goes by the name Ebola. A lethal virus first identified in northern Congo in 1976, Ebola attacks almost everything in the body except bone, destroying the immune system in fast-forward and causing organs to melt down, hemorrhage and then bleed out through the body's orifices. The period between infection and the onset of sickness is three to 14 days. Death follows within a fortnight. Ebola-Zaire, the first strain identified, kills 90% of those infected. The strain that...
...house people fleeing attacks by a sociopathic guerrilla movement calling itself the Lord's Resistance Army - are a fertile breeding ground, given their poor sanitation. Whereas a previous outbreak in the Congo in 1995 was ultimately contained, health officials are concerned that it could spread more rapidly in the Ugandan region, where there is much more frequent movement of people, particularly refugees from the LRA. Indeed, guerrilla attacks since the current outbreak have not only spread refugees far and wide, they've also involved the kidnapping of a number of potentially infected people, prompting fears that the initial attempts...