Some 29 people - including two health workers - have died and 113 people have been infected by a devastating outbreak of Ebola virus in Uganda, the country's Health Ministry said Monday, according to dpa. The fast-spreading killer disease has mostly affected Bundibugyo district on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo but the epidemic has spread to eight other districts which the Ugandan government has put on high alert. Two health workers died last week, sparking concerns over the spread of the disease, with Kenyan border guards diligently screening Ugandans crossing over. The disease, which causes sudden fever and bleeding from body orifices and is fatal in 80 per cent of cases, hit northern Uganda in 2000, leaving 224 people dead out of the 425 infected.
