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Panic as Ebola team buries 3 family members in Kassanda

(Monitor) Panic gripped residents of Kitongo Village in Kalwana Sub-county, Kassanda, as the district taskforce delivered the remains of four people that succumbed to the Ebola Virus Disease for burial.
Three of the bodies belong to one family that allegedly exhumed the remains of their relative who had earlier succumbed to Ebola.  Mr Muzaffalu Ssenyonjo, the village chairperson, said seven people have now died of the disease in the area.

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