Last week Uganda said it had discharged its last Ebola patient from hospital, raising hopes for the end of an outbreak of the deadly haemorrhagic fever declared on September 20.

In captive-primate facilities, these viruses have led to outbreaks that cause haemorrhagic fever and death.

Authorities have been struggling to contain the highly infectious and deadly haemorrhagic fever since the epidemic was declared on Sept. 20.

Authorities have been struggling to contain the highly infectious and deadly haemorrhagic fever since the epidemic spilled into the capital Kampala, home to around two million people.

Some fear that President Yoweri Museveni was too slow to act on early warnings from health workers about the viral haemorrhagic fever.