Posted by Maureen on 5/24/11
Following the Ebola outbreak in Uganda People are being warned against eating bats and monkeys.
The new finding have it that Bat and Monkeys have the Ebola disease which is spreading highly in the country side.
Ebola disease was initially for Monkeys and Bats but it has come to Human beings through physical contact with the infected animals and sometimes consuming them.
Monkey eaters are mainly found in the western part of Uganda and the Bakonjo tribe in Kasese are among the tribes which eat Monkey meat.
The ministry of health has said that in order to erase away the Ebola Epidermic people should stop eating monkeys.
Recently Ebola Re manifested in Luweero District and it claimed life of a 12 year old girl. The isolation unit has been put up in Bombo military hospital and so far it has 4 patients among them is an army officer from Katakwi
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