Hospital nurse in Uganda dies in country's first Ebola outbreak in 2 years A nurse in Uganda has died of Ebola in the first recorded fatality since the country's last outbreak of the disease ended in early 2023, a health official said Thursday.
At least 44 contacts of the victim have been identified, including 30 health workers and patients at Mulago Hospital, according to Uganda’s Ministry of Health.
The ongoing Marburg outbreak in northern Tanzania 's Kagera region has killed at least two people, according to local health authorities.
The 32-year-old male nurse was an employee of Mulago Hospital, the main referral facility in the capital, Kampala, Diana Atwine, permanent secretary of the health ministry, told reporters Thursday.
Uganda's last outbreak, discovered in September 2022, killed at least 55 people before it was declared over in January 2023.
