Ebola seems to have ravaged Uganda in the last days, as 101 people were suspected carrying the virus and hundreds more people are being closely monitored, according to officials Friday.

The authorities fear that the deadly virus might spread in the neighboring countries as well. Twenty-two people were reported dead because of the cruel virus, said Minister of State for primary health-care Dr. Emmanuel Otaala, according to Reuters. Eleven health workers treating Ebola patients have contracted the disease. Four of them died.

Most of the cases registered in western Bundibugyo district bordering Democratic Republic of the Congo. The World Health Organization and Ugandan officials are working to track 327 people believed to have been in contact with the victims to follow up and assess their status.

Dr. Jonah Kule was one of the unhappy cases. He died on December 4 at Mulago Hospital of hemorrhagic fever. Kule, who grew up in Bundibugyo, returned here after completing medical school in the capital city of Kampala.

"I have seen [Ebola] patients die, and I know that I am dying. I am going to die now. And I pray that no one should ever have to die of this disease again," he said the morning of his death, according to Dr. Jennifer Myhre, a medical missionary, living in Bundibugyo along with her husband, the ABC News reported.

Kule was first to investigate the Ebola outbreak when it first started in October when no one was sure if the rumors of a mysterious illness with fever, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea and inexplicably rapid death were true.

Ebola hemorrhagic fever is known to be lethal in humans, monkeys and other nonhuman primates, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The disease appeared for the first time 1976.

Health specialists said that the virus gets into human system by exposure to infected animals. People infected with the virus face fever, vomiting, diarrhea, bleeding from all body orifices. Patients die of shock or respiratory failure or as a result of the massive bleeding, including bleeding in the lungs.

There is no specific treatment or vaccine for Ebola, which causes death in 50 to 90 percent of all those infected, according to the WHO.

More than 1,850 human cases, including 1,200 deaths have been recorded since the Ebola virus was first identified in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly known as Zaire.