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Update (June 13): NPR reports that a second patient in Uganda has died of Ebola.
Three family members represent the first cases of Ebola in the current outbreak outside of Democratic Republic of Congo. A woman and her two young grandchildren tested positive for the virus after traveling from DRC to Uganda this week, according to the Associated Press, and one of the kids, a five-year-old boy, has died.
“This epidemic is in a truly frightening phase and shows no sign of stopping,” Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust global health charity, tells Reuters.
Nearly 1,400 people have died in the outbreak that began in DRC last August, making it the second-deadliest in history, after the Ebola outbreak in West Africa from 2014–2016 that killed more than 11,000 people.
According to the AP, the victim and his family members had been waiting in DRC for ...
