Holidaymakers visiting the Rwenzori mountains and the area are not at risk of catching Ebola, the Uganda Wildlife Authority executive director

Moses Mapesa yesterday said hygienics and honorable hygienic practices were stressed in the tourist facilities that include the Queen Elizabeth and Kibale national parks Mt. Rwenzori.

Dismissing stories that the wildlife officials had published an Ebola alert to tourists, Mapesa said: “Nobody is in danger of catching Ebola for as long as they climb up into tourist vehicles in Kampala and head straight for the hotels and lodges in the national parks and game reserves.

Mapesa called attention that wildlife authority staff live inside the parks and reserves, far from the villages where cases of Ebola had been reported. He said there had been no decline in tourist dealings.

Over 80 people have been reported to have caught the deadly viral disease in the Rwenzori region.