Ugandan authorities on Wednesday ordered the closure of the border with its neighbour, the Democratic Republic of Congo, as suspected cases of a rare type of Ebola surge to near 1,000 in its neighbour.
The decision by the Ugandan Ebola task force comes as other variants of the virus emerge and follows a rise in local health workers exposed to the virus by Congolese patients who crossed before the outbreak was declared on May 15.
