'I want to alert the public that there is the threat of an Ebola epidemic in our country,'
"I want to alert the public that there is the threat of an Ebola epidemic in our country," Ummy Mwalimu tweeted days after officials confirmed that members of a family who had travelled to the DRC had died in western Uganda.
Tanzania's northwestern Kagera, Mwanza and Kigoma regions were most at risk, said Mwalimu. But"given that this disease transmits very easily and very quickly from one person to another, nearly the entire country is in danger."
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