A third patient tested negative and results on the fourth were not yet known, said a spokesman for the international health care group, Doctors Without Borders. Ochora said the result means the earliest of the 281 known cases remains a local woman who died Sept. 17. Officials have been heartened by tests showing that this outbreak resembles one of Ebola's less lethal strains that may be fatal in about 53 percent of patients. The most virulent strain of the virus can kill up to 90 percent of patients. The effort to isolate the disease in the northern city of Gulu was bolstered by experts from Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organization, who brought protective gear to both local hospitals and trained volunteers to search for people who were infected or exposed to the virus.
Medical treatment amounts to keeping up fluid levels.
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