President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda is insisting that traditional healers stop trying to treat suspected Ebola virus infections, following the death of a man in Kampala who previously sought help from one of these practitioners. “The witch doctors, traditional healers and herbalists should not accept sick people in your shrines…
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