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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - An Ebola outbreak has killed at least 16 people in western Uganda, a senior Ministry of Health official said Thursday.
Dr. Sam Zaramba, the health service director general, said laboratory tests in South Africa and the United States confirmed 51 Ebola cases, and of those 16 patients died.
The first case was reported Nov. 10 in Bundibugyo district, 210 miles west of the capital, Kampala, Zaramba said. The Ministry of Health has set up an isolation facility at the main hospital in Bundibugyo, where all the Ebola cases have been reported, he said.
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