Nairobi/Kampala - The outbreak in Uganda of ebola, an often fatal disease marked by haemorrhagic fever, does not endanger tourists, Moses Mapesa, executive director of the Uganda Wildlife Authority told the Ugandan daily The New Vision. In view of the good hygienic conditions at the East African country's tourist facilities, "Nobody is in danger of catching Ebola as long as they jump into tourist vehicles in Kampala and head straight for the hotels and lodges in the national parks and game reserves," the report quoted him as saying.
Mapesa said there was no risk of infection in the national park around Mount Rwenzori either. Park rangers, with whom tourists have contact, live in the parks and not in the villages where ebola has appeared, he noted.
More than 80 cases of ebola have been registered since August in the Ugandan region of Rwenzori as well as on the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
A total of 22 people have died.
