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Health officials launch an intensive campaign to find the origins of an outbreak of Ebola fever in Uganda.

Date
18 Oct 2000
Updated
30 Sep 2019
Health officials launch an intensive campaign to find the origins of an outbreak of Ebola fever in Uganda.

Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (EHF) is a serious and aggressive disease characterised by severe flu-like symptoms, vomiting, diarrhoea, headaches, haemorrhaging and possibly coma. The disease got its name from the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it was first found. On 18 October 2000 Scientists launched a campaign to find the origins of the disease in Uganda. Uganda was one of the four countries ravaged by the disease in the early 2000’s. As recently as 2012, thirteen people were reported dead from Ebola.

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  1. 01CDC Outbreak of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever ---Uganda, August 2000--January 2001 [online] Available at: www.cdc.gov [Accessed on 23 September 2013]
  2. 02Doctors without Borders Outbreak: Ebola Surfaces in Uganda [online] Available at: www.doctorswithoutborders.org [Accessed on 23 September 2013]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2013, October 8). Health officials launch an intensive campaign to find the origins of an outbreak of Ebola fever in Uganda.. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0096500

South African History Online (2013) 'Health officials launch an intensive campaign to find the origins of an outbreak of Ebola fever in Uganda.', South African History Online, 8 October. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0096500 (Accessed: 9 August 2026).

South African History Online, Health officials launch an intensive campaign to find the origins of an outbreak of Ebola fever in Uganda. [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0096500, (accessed 9 August 2026).

"Health officials launch an intensive campaign to find the origins of an outbreak of Ebola fever in Uganda.." South African History Online, 8 Oct. 2013, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0096500. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "Health officials launch an intensive campaign to find the origins of an outbreak of Ebola fever in Uganda.." South African History Online. October 8, 2013. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0096500.

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