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Second patient dies of Ebola in Uganda: Health official

World Health Organisation officials talk to Ugandan medical staff as they inspect ebola preparedness facilities at the Bwera general hospital near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo in Bwera, Uganda, June 12, 2019.Thursday, the second fatality since the virus spread from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

Arrangements are being made to bury the woman in Kasese, a district in western Uganda close to the DRC border, the official added. All three were from a single family that travelled to DRC to care for a relative, who also died of Ebola. The family was quarantined in a hospital in Bwera, in Kasese district. Eight others who had been in contact with them were also being monitored in an isolation ward.

 

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