The Ministry of Health has negated the report from the Bugiri district health authorities about the Ebola case that was reported in the district early this week.

An official from the Health Ministry, Dr. Denis Lamafa says that a group of experts who were sent to Bugiri Hospital carried out a test that has indicated that the suspect had malaria fever which was in the advanced stage.

Dr. Lamafa adds that other cases had been reported in Gomba district which have also been proved by Ebola experts not to be Ebola but malaria.

The Ministry of Health has set a special testing unit for Ebola suspects in Nakaseke district and the ministry urges the members of the public to immediately report suspected Ebola patients.

By Issa Asuman