A fresh Ebola outbreak has been reported in Uganda two years after the last one ended in the landlocked country in January 2023, Uganda's ministry of health has confirmed. A 32-year-old male nurse died of the deadly viral hemorrhagic fever in Kampala. The patient exhibited a series of deadly symptoms and died of multiple organ failure on Wednesday at Mulango National Hospital.
First Ebola outbreak in Uganda was recorded in 2000 and since then the disease has struck the country eight more times.