Kampala looks to be about 100+ miles from Tanzania border with one major highway connector. The earlier Kigali Rwanda outbreak is approx 75 miles SW of the border as the crow flies, more by the looping road as indicated on the map. So the hot zone expands a bit.
Air travel is less of a concern as transmission vector than bus travel which is more accessible. Air travel limiting factors are cost and limited flight duration. The virus, IIRC, is transmissible only through direct infected fluid contact, so contagion in a plane would be visibly evident during the flight. Of course absent visible symptoms flying allows the virus carrier to travel farther before bleeding occurs, leap frogging if you will.
The more common and affordable bus travel presents the more opportune transmission for the virus.
couldn't quickly find a topographic map with road and rail overlays which would be interesting and perhaps instructive when compared with same of earlier outbreaks. Commonality of local conditions might help narrow the search.
Currently, there are 32 cases admitted on the isolation ward. However, due to the increasing number of patients, a second isolation ward and a convalescent ward for admitted cases that have tested negative to Ebola have been opened at Kagadi hospital.
The new isolation center constructed by MSF will begin operations on 4 August 2012. Additional staff from other districts with experience of managing previous Ebola outbreaks have been deployed to support and manage the isolation centre. WHO is supporting the Ministry of Health’s response to the outbreak. To date, WHO has deployed epidemiologists and logisticians; and provided essential equipment for personal protection and safe disposal of the deceased.
WHO does not recommend that any travel or trade restrictions be applied to Uganda.
