Image courtesy: CDC  Image courtesy: CDC  UGANDA -- Fourteen
people have died so far from the Ebola outbreak that began
earlier this month in Western Uganda.  According to the World
Health Organization, the first case is believed to be from the
Nyanswiga village in Nyamarunda, a sub-county of the Kibaale
district of Uganda.  So far, 36 suspected cases have been
reported, WHO spokesman Tariq Jasarevic said Tuesday. Nine of
the deaths are reported to have occurred in one household; a
health official who was treating one of the patients also died.
Unfortunately family members and health officials - those caring
for the already sickened - are the most likely to be infected as
well.  When was Ebola first discovered?  The Ebola virus was
first detected in 1976 in the central African nation of Zaire
(now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).  The virus is named
after a river in that country, where the first outbreak of the
disease was found.  There are five species of Ebola viruses, all
named after the areas they w