Screening at Kenya-Uganda border for Ebola

An outbreak of Ebola in the Ugandan town of Mubende has prompted health authorities in the Kenyan frontier town of Busia to heighten surveillance to prevent the virus from spreading across the border.Travelers and truck drivers traveling from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, South Sudan, and Uganda into Kenya now have to undergo screening at the Busia border crossing.The screening includes measuring body temperatures, with those who have a temperature beyond 37.8C being directed to a holding room at the border.

If the temperature cools down, the traveler is allowed to proceed with the journey, but if it remains high, they are taken into an Ebola isolation center at the hospital.Officials at the border town say they have screened over 5,000 people since the first case of Ebola was reported in Uganda about two weeks ago, but so far no one has been taken into the Kenyan isolation center.Health officials on the Kenyan border with Uganda say so far the spread appears to be contained and isolated within Uganda, where more than 30 people have been infected.