Kenyan hospital isolates man amid Ebola fear

BUSIA, Kenya (Reuters) -- Kenyan health authorities were carrying out urgent tests on a man they fear may have contracted the deadly Ebola virus at a funeral in Uganda, they said on Wednesday.

Doctor Walter Kayawaya of Busia District Hospital in western Kenya said hospital workers had confined George Ekokwa after he fell ill following his return from Uganda last week.

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On Tuesday, Uganda's health ministry warned Kenyan authorities that seven Kenyan nationals may have come into contact with the virus when they attended the burial of a female relative who died of the disease. Ekokwa was one of them.

Ugandan officials said earlier this week the woman had unwittingly spread the epidemic when she fled the center of the outbreak in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu to her home district in a vain attempt to escape the disease.

There is no known cure for the disease which can cause massive internal bleeding and has killed 110 people in the latest outbreak.

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