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Uganda ebola outbreak: patients flee hospital amid contagion fears

Submitted by kieronb on Mon, 2012-07-30 15:02

Contagion: Ebola outbreak in Uganda "Terrified patients fled from a hospital in western Uganda as soon as news broke that a mysterious illness that killed at least 14 people in the region was Ebola, one of the world's most virulent diseases."

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