Uganda's health ministry has confirmed its first death from Ebola since 2019 and declared an outbreak of the highly contagious virus.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the World Health Organization (the WHO) said a 24-year-old man in Mubende, central Uganda, had tested positive for "the relatively rare Sudan strain" of the virus.
The WHO's Africa Director Matshidiso Moeti said it is the first time in more than a decade that Uganda is recording the Ebola Sudan strain and that they are working closely to investigate the source of the outbreak while quickly rolling out effective control measures.
