Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala with the first confirmed patient dying from it on Wednesday, the health ministry said on Thursday. It is the East African ...

A nurse in Uganda has died of Ebola, a health official said Thursday, in the first recorded fatality since the last outbreak ended in 2023.

Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of Ebola Virus after a nurse who had developed a fever was pronounced dead. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health Diana Atwine said the 32-year-old patient, a ...

Okumu took leave and returned to Kampala to cater for her health—was battling acute hypertension— and kept extending her leave ...

The highly infectious hemorrhagic fever is transmitted through contact with infected bodily fluids and tissue. Symptoms include headache, vomiting blood, muscle pains and bleeding.

In their latest statement, UNICEF estimates that at least 282,000 children have become displaced in North Kivu and South Kivu provinces in the past three months.