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The Uganda Ministry of Health has its work cut out this month. From the front page of the December 5th Daily Monitor:

AS the country grapples with the deadly Ebola outbreak in western Uganda, medics are struggling to contain a rising spate of meningitis and bubonic plague in West Nile [district], cholera in Hoima and Buliisa [districts], and yellow fever in the northern district of Kitgum.

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Last Friday the Ugandan dailies the New Vision and Monitor both reported 16 deaths and 51 cases of Ebola in the western Uganda district of Bundibugyo bordering Congo. The mountainous area is also experiencing an influx of Congolese refugees from recent fighting in the eastern states of Congo. As of Monday morning there are 18 confirmed deaths and 58 cases.

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One of the Millennium Villages is just down the road from Mbarara.  I have known this, kind of, since my first visit to western Uganda in 2005.  But this past Sunday several of us, led by a friend working for the UN in Mbarara, drove the hour or so up a tortured dirt road into the highlands of Isingiro district where residents with assistance from various local and regional governments and international funding, are working to improve their way of life. 

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