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<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width=480><TBODY><TR><TD class=headline1 colSpan=2>Virus Institute warns of yellow fever outbreak </TD></TR><TR><TD>Tuesday, 19th July, 2011</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
By Gladys Kalibbala
RESEARCHERS at Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), Entebbe have warned of a possible outbreak of yellow fever due to the encroachment on Ziika forest located around Kisubi on the shores of Lake Victoria in Wakiso district.
Researchers are concerned that people have encroached on the buffer zone which is supposed to be 300 meters from the boundaries of the forest.
?They have instead put residential structures at the edge of the forest which is dangerous not only for their lives but the whole nation,? observed Dr. Josephine Birungi.
UVRI deputy director, Dr. Louis Mukwaya explains that the deadly mosquito ?Aedes africanus? known to transmit yellow fever from monkeys to human was first traced in Ziika forest in 1971.
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http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/760594
By Gladys Kalibbala
RESEARCHERS at Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), Entebbe have warned of a possible outbreak of yellow fever due to the encroachment on Ziika forest located around Kisubi on the shores of Lake Victoria in Wakiso district.
Researchers are concerned that people have encroached on the buffer zone which is supposed to be 300 meters from the boundaries of the forest.
?They have instead put residential structures at the edge of the forest which is dangerous not only for their lives but the whole nation,? observed Dr. Josephine Birungi.
UVRI deputy director, Dr. Louis Mukwaya explains that the deadly mosquito ?Aedes africanus? known to transmit yellow fever from monkeys to human was first traced in Ziika forest in 1971.
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http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/760594