The Ugandan authorities have announced the Ebola outbreak in the country’s central municipality of Mubende after an infected 24-year-old national died, the Ugandan health ministry said on Tuesday.
“Uganda confirms an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Mubende District, Uganda. The confirmed case is a 24-year-old male a resident of Ngabano village of Madudu Sub County in Mubende District presented with EVD symptoms and later succumbed,” the ministry tweeted.
The testing results confirmed that the patient had been infected with the Ebola-Sudan strain, it added.
Ebola is an acute viral infection that affects humans and some other species of animals.
During the last major epidemic, 28,600 people were infected with the disease, and over 11,300 of them died, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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