Update (September 26): The death toll in Uganda’s latest Ebola outbreak has risen to at least five, Uganda’s Ministry of Health tweeted Monday. The ministry has confirmed 18 total cases of the Sudan strain of Ebola and is investigating 18 additional deaths as being linked to the outbreak.
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ganda has declared an outbreak of Ebola after a 24-year-old man suspected to have died from the disease tested positive for the Sudan strain of the virus, the World Health Organization announced today (September 20).
The man lived in the country’s central Mubende district and died after displaying symptoms including diarrhea, high fever, abdominal pain, and vomiting blood, Reuters reports. It is still unknown how he contracted the virus, but six other individuals in the district also died earlier this month of what local officials describe as “strange illness” now thought to have been Ebola, the Associated Press reports. There are ...
