Ebola cases in Uganda rise to 14 as new cluster emerges
The Africa CDC reported that there was no direct epidemiological link between the new cluster and another one accounting for nine previous Ebola cases, including the first victim of the outbreak.
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The Africa CDC reported that there was no direct epidemiological link between the new cluster and another one accounting for nine previous Ebola cases, including the first victim of the outbreak.
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00:00Uganda's Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week, Africa's top public health
00:05agency said Thursday, with a new cluster emerging from a four-year-old child who recently died
00:12of the infectious disease.
00:14Three of five new cases have been confirmed as Ebola, with two cited as probably Ebola.
00:21Dr. Nga Shingungu of the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention told reporters.
00:30The Africa CDC reported that there was no direct epidemiological link between the new
00:35cluster and another one, accounting for nine previous Ebola cases, including the first
00:42victim of the outbreak.
00:45Ebola is now spreading in five of Uganda's 146 districts, it said.
00:51That includes Kampala, the capital where the outbreak was declared.
00:55On January 30, two Ebola deaths have been confirmed.