© AFP/whoThe nurses take care of a patient with Ebola hemorrhagic fever.Four Liberian health workers have been taken when the Ebola virus while treating patients.
Health care for all nurses worked in Suakoko Bong County when they got the virus from the Phebe hospital.
This comes three weeks after the Ugandan senior surgeon succumbed to Ebola in Liberia, where he worked for three years as an expert.
Dr. Samuel Muhumuza Mutoro died at the John f. Kennedy Medical Center, the largest hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, where he was treated.
The West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are currently battling an outbreak of Ebola, which is extremely contagious high mortality.
According to the news agency, the nurses have migrated to Liberia Monrovia, where they are processed and monitored by doctors.
Dr. Phebe hospital medical director Jefferson Sibley said the nurses have taken on the virus from the patient, who was admitted to the hospital.
Uganda is alert and in control of the neighboring country of Congo where suspected cases of Ebola have been reported in the north-eastern part of the province of Orientale, Aru.
Samples were taken for testing, according to the Ministry of health, Dr. Ari Lukwago head of Office in Kinshasa.
Ebola symptoms are fever, bleeding through body openings, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, headache, skin rash and red eyes.
At the moment there is no known cure for Ebola. The disease can spread by direct contact with body fluids such as saliva, blood, stool, vomit, urine and sweat of the infected person, as well as bed linen, patient use. It can also spread to the skin piercing instruments that an infected person through.
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