President Yoweri Museveni has expressed sadness at the loss of lives in West Africa due to the Ebola outbreak and said that the people of Uganda stand with their brothers and sisters in that region at this trying period as efforts are expended to contain and overcome the disease.

He urged all African countries as a whole to use political mobilization in to help people understand that Ebola is spread mainly through contact with body fluids of an infected person or a corpse of one that has died of the disease.

The President made these remarks yesterday during an interview with BBC Radio and TV (English and Kiswahili) channels at his residence in Kensington in London.

President Museveni emphasized that when people internalize the message against physical contact, the infection rate of the Ebola disease will be controlled as has been the case in Uganda where three Ebola outbreaks have been controlled.

He also advised that our traditional ways of handling bodies and sick people must take second place and let science take the first place so that a solution can be found fast.

He added that people who report to hospitals as soon as they feel ill and receive rehydration, make their chances of survival highly increased.