The Ebola outbreak in an East African country Uganda has come to an end according to the World Health Organisation announcement published on Monday.

The Ebola hemorrhagic fever hit the people of Kibaale district in western Uganda in August, 2012, killing 17 people and scores of others were successfully treated.

Ebola spreads by direct contact with the blood or other body fluids of infected persons and it is fatal in about 50% to 90% of the world cases. Its victims bleed from body orifices before dying in the most severe instances.

The Ebola haemorrhagic disease was named Ebola after river Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 2007 Ebola killed 37 people in western Uganda and 170 in northern Uganda in 2000.