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

Uganda’s Health Ministry has confirmed nine Ebola cases in the country.

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.

All eight patients are in a stable condition, and 265 contacts of the confirmed cases have been placed under quarantine, the ministry added.

Uganda declared…