Ebola! Ebola!!! Please spare me,my family and my country

Today is my saddest day, not because I have lost some one but because I have had that cases of Ebola have spread to Mbarara, my home district. I tried to call my Mumy to find out how she is.

The conversation was simple

How are u Mum? I asked in a low tone voice.

Am o.k. son.

Is what am hearing about Ebola true Mum?


Yes, but don’t worry son, the doctors are hear trying to attend to patients.

Everything will be fine don’t worry. Just cool down and do your University exams.

Indeed, I cooled down and entered in for my Public relations exam .

Immediately after the exam I tuned on a radion only to hear that the Doctor heading Bundibugyo hospital, a laboratory technician and the hospital matron have passed a way.


They got contracted with the deadly Ebola Virus when trying to treat Ebola patients. May their souls rest in eternal peace.


Back at the University, students are advising me not to go home for Christmas or else I risk getting Ebola. But my answer is NO. After my exams on 14th Dec. I will try to finish up with what am doing and go home by 22nd Dec.I will have my Christmas with my family on whatever cost.


Scientists say Ebola is both the common term used to describe a group of Viruses belonging to genus Ebolavirus, family filoviridae, and the common name for the disease which they call, Ebola hemorrhagicfever.

These viruses are characterised by a long, filamentous morphology surrounded by a lipid viral envelop. Ebola viruses are morphologically similar to the Marburg Virus, also in the family Filoviridae, and share similar disease symptoms. Ebola has caused a number of serious and highly publicized outbreaks since its discovery


Yesterday media reports show that two people had died, to day, three doctors are confirmed dead This brings the death toll to 25, with six more new cases recorded and four medical workers placed under quarantine.

In one week, the rate of infection has risen to 65, an increment attributed to free human movement and people's ignorance of the disease since September.

The government said last Wednesday that the outbreak was an unknown strain after analysis was done on tissue samples at the laboratories of the Atlanta-based Centre for Disease Control. But tests came months after the disease had spread to 14 villages in the affected district.

Latest reports from the troubled zone show that seven people from the family of Mr Jeremiah Muhindo, who recently died of the disease, have all been admitted at Kikyo Health Centre IV in critical condition.

Although the government insists that the death toll is now 25, unconfirmed reports show that the number is persistently increasing, with the current figures showing 37 people who have so far died.

The disease spreads mainly through human fluids, notably blood.

An outbreak in uganda in 2000 killed at least 170 people in Gulu District, including Dr Mathew Lukwiya, the then medical superintendent of Lacor Hospital, who first identified and later relentlessly spearheaded the fight against the deadly hemorrhagic fever.

It was believed that Ugandan soldiers who were then returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo brought the disease into the country.

The Ebola virus was first identified in 1976 in Sudan and in a nearby region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire).

Outbreaks of Ebola have also occurred in the Ivory Coast and Gabon. Since then, experts have said the disease is usually containable because it kills its victims faster that it can spread to new ones.