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Ministry of Health: Press Statement on Ebola Outbreak in Kasese District

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The Ministry of Health would like to inform the public of the confirmation of an Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Kasese District, Uganda. The confirmed case is a 5 year old boy who traveled from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with ihs mother yesterday, the 10th June 2019. The mother is of Congolese origin but married to a Ugandan and they reside in Kasese District. However, she had traveled back to DRC to nurse her father who succumbed to Ebola.