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One dead, eight sickened in Uganda’s new Ebola outbreak

Medical personnel wear protective clothing before handling vaccine vials during the launch of an Ebola trial vaccination campaign in Kampala, Uganda [Badru Katumba/AFP]

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Uganda has risen to nine, with one confirmed death, the country’s Ministry of Health has said.

In a statement late on Monday, the Health Ministry said that of the other new cases, seven were being treated in a hospital in the capital, Kampala, and one was in a hospital in the eastern city of Mbale, near the Kenyan border.

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