Uganda battles fresh Ebola outbreak, three dead

Uganda said yesterday three people had died from an outbreak of the Ebola virus in its central region, near the capital Kampala, the latest bout of deadly haemorrhagic fevers to strike the east African nation in recent months.

Health Minister Christine Ondoa said two of the dead were from one family in Luwero district, about 75km north of Kampala. The new outbreak comes about a month after Uganda declared itself free of Ebola which struck in July in the western part of the country, close to the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the disease first occurred in 1976.

Source: Gulf Times