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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Harriet Nankya in Kampala and Kaamil Ahmed

Health workers among dead in Ugandan Ebola outbreak

A medical attendant disinfects a man's rubber gloves outside a Hospital
Four health workers have already died of disease since the outbreak was announced on 20 September. There have been 63 cases reported so far. Photograph: Hajarah Nalwadda/AP

It seems like a normal day in Mubende, central Uganda. Shops remain open, children are at school and public gatherings are allowed, provided people remain socially distant.

The ambulances that whisk past every few hours and the health workers who wash themselves meticulously before they return home are the only indications that it is not business as usual in the densely populated mining district, which is struggling to contain an outbreak of Ebola.

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