- GENEVA (Reuters) - The death
toll from Ebola fever in northern Uganda rose to 60 on Tuesday and the
outbreak is expected to continue for months, the World Health Organization
said.
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- The deaths in Uganda's Gulu province rose from 55 on
Monday and the number of cases reported also rose to 165 from Monday's
160, Valery Abramov, spokesman for the Geneva-based U.N. health agency
said.
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- Although the rate of hospital admissions had stabilized
at between five and 10 patients a day, further waves of the fever were
expected, he said.
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- ``We're still in the middle of one wave. They (health
experts) are expecting three or four waves which means it could still go
on for another two-and-a-half, if not three months,'' Abramov told a news
briefing. There is no known cure for the hemorrhagic fever, which is spread
by human contact and causes massive internal bleeding.
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- The WHO says the incubation period is between two and
21 days.
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- The exact origin of the virus and how and why it flares
up are unknown. Symptoms include sudden onset of fever, weakness, headache,
muscle ache, abdominal pain and sore throat, followed by vomiting, diarrhea
and internal and external bleeding.
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- The WHO says that before the Uganda outbreak Ebola had
claimed 793 lives in nearly 1,100 documented cases since the virus was
discovered in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where an epidemic
killed more than 270 people.
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- The latest outbreak is the first in Uganda, although
Marburg fever, which has similar characteristics, killed 19 people there
in 1976.
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- WHO officials have been unable to say whether the final
toll is likely to match the 245 people who died in the Congolese town of
Kikwit in 1995.
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