Scientists prepare to take a sample from a 3-year-old boy suspected of dying from Ebola on October 13, 2022, in Mubende, Uganda. Emergency response teams, isolation centers and treatment tents ...

On 12 October, Uganda’s health minister, Jane Ruth Aceng, confirmed that a person had died from Ebola in the country’s capital, Kampala, more than 90 miles from the centre of Mubende.

Uganda is grappling with its deadliest Ebola outbreak in more than a decade, first detected in the Mubende district in late September. The deadly disease has ravaged families, leaving authorities ...

Kassanda and Mubende — two of Uganda’s 136 political districts ... Red Cross workers doff PPE after burying a 3-year-old boy suspected of dying from Ebola on October 13, 2022 in Mubende, Uganda.

A member of the Ugandan medical staff of the Ebola Treatment Unit stands inside the ward in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda on September 24, 2022.

In Uganda, the government has extended a 21-day lockdown in the two districts at the epicentre of the ongoing Ebola outbreak. The BBC got rare access to one of the districts, Mubende, and its ...

“Happy to announce that we discharged the [last] Ebola patient,” Dr. Diana Atwine, a top health official for Uganda’s Ministry of Health, said in a Dec. 2 tweet.It’s unclear when the ...

An outbreak of Ebola has been declared in Uganda after health authorities confirmed a case of the relatively rare Sudan strain, the health ministry and World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.

Ebola has flared up intermittently in Africa for more than 40 years, most notably during an outbreak between 2013 and 2016 that infected 28,000 people and took more than 11,000 lives.

As Ugandan farmer Bonaventura Senyonga prepares to bury his grandson, age-old traditions are forgotten and fear hangs in the air while a government medical team prepares the body for the funeral ...

MUBENDE, Uganda -- The nurse wanted the toddler with a high fever transferred at once from a private clinic in Uganda to a public hospital even though the child tested positive for malaria amid an ...