EBOLA OUTBREAK IN UGANDA

An outbreak of Ebola has been declared in Uganda after health authorities confirmed a case of the relatively rare Sudan strain, the government and the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

“We want to inform the country that we have an outbreak of Ebola, which we confirmed yesterday,” Diana Atwine, the health ministry’s permanent secretary, told a news conference on Tuesday.

The patient with the confirmed case, a 24-year-old man in Uganda’s central Mubende district, showed symptoms and later died.