LUANDA, Jan. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- The Angolan Health Ministry has taken precautions against the Ebola virus in the southern provinces of Huila, Namibe and Cunene, following the recent death in Zimbabwe of a local citizen who had been treated in a private clinic of Lubango, Huila.

    Because of border proximity with the countries normally hit by the disease, namely the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon and Cote d'Ivoire, the precaution measures are extensive to the provinces of Cabinda and Zaire in the north, and Lunda-Norte and Lunda-Sul in the northeast.

    In a note released on Tuesday in Luanda, the ministry said thatdue to its high contagiousness and deadliness, the Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease of obligatory notification.

    The deceased Zimbabwean was a trader who operated in Botswana, Namibia and Angola and died on Dec. 25 last year in his country, according to the note. Enditem