The Ministry of Health has intensified monitoring measures after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda a global health emergency.

Some 88 people have died from the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever in the DR Congo, with one death in Uganda, and at least 336 suspected cases.

At least 80 people have died in what the World Health Organization says potentially could be a "much larger outbreak than what is currently being detected and reported".