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Medical workers wearing protective suits take part in a training prior to leave to countries affected by the Ebolas virus, in an empty factory warehouse in Amsterdam, on November 5, 2014 where medicals aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) created a mock clinic. The disease has killed nearly 5,000 people, almost all of them in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. AFP PHOTO/ANP/BAS CZERWINSKI-netherlands out- (Photo credit should read BAS CZERWINSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
Feb. 11, 2025
Ugandan health ministry on Tuesday announced that the number of confirmed Ebola cases in Uganda has risen to nine from three.
The East African country declared an outbreak of the severe, often fatal viral infection in January.
The latest outbreak is being driven by the Sudan strain of the virus, for which there is no approved vaccine.
Uganda’s health ministry said in a statement on Monday that of the nine confirmed cases one person had died.
Seven were being treated in a hospital in the capital Kampala and one was in a hospital in the eastern city of Mbale, near the Kenyan border.
The ministry said all eight patients are in stable condition, and 265 contacts of the confirmed cases have been placed under quarantine.
Existing vaccines are for the Zaire strain of Ebola, which was behind recent outbreaks in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
REUTERS
