This article critically examines the unknowing of the source of the Ebola epidemic in Northern Uganda, in 2000/1, by asking how this unknowing has been achieved and has shaped the disease situation. Specifically, this article follows my informants’ explanation that soldiers of the Uganda People's Defence Force had brought the disease from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Uganda. This account is widely rejected as a rumour by scientists, who insist that the source of the epidemic remains unknown. By contrast, I suggest that following these stories, as embodied experiences of the multiple connections between war and epidemics, human and nonhuman lives, provides crucial insights into the political ecology of Ebola in the wider region – a region where, even today, conflict and Ebola outbreaks are intricately interwoven. Understanding how unknowing is achieved and shapes a disease situation directs attention to forms of silent knowing, which illuminate what preparedness means in the political ecology of Ebola.

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致命的秘密：在乌干达北部了解和了解埃博拉疫情的根源

本文通过询问这种认识是如何实现的以及对疾病状况的影响，来严谨地考察乌干达北部2000/1年埃博拉疫情的来源。具体来说，本文是根据我的线人的解释，即乌干达人民国防军的士兵已将这种疾病从刚果民主共和国带到乌干达。这一说法被科学家广泛否认为谣言，他们坚持认为这种流行病的来源仍然未知。相比之下，我建议遵循这些故事，作为战争与流行病，人类和非人类生活之间多重联系的具体经验，可以提供对更广泛地区埃博拉政治生态的重要见解，该地区即使在今天仍然发生冲突和冲突。埃博拉疫情错综复杂。