More than 250,000 'at risk' from Ugandan Ebola outbreak

About 253,000 people are at risk from the ongoing outbreak of the Ebola virus in Uganda, according to health experts.

Representatives of the World Health Organization and Ugandan ministry of health confirmed that people living in the five sub-counties of Bundibugyo district were most at risk from the potentially deadly fever, The New Vision reported.

At the same time more than 300 people who were thought to have come into contact with people already infected by the disease have been confined to their homes for monitoring.

"We have established that 335 such people participated in burying some of the cases, either as relatives or sympathisers," the Bundibugyo district chairman, Jackson Bambalira, said.

There have been 93 confirmed cases of the disease in this latest outbreak, with 25 people, including five medical workers, killed by the virus.

Ebola was first identified in 1976, AllAfrica.com reported, and has affected approximately 1,850 people since then, causing 1,200 deaths.

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