Ugandan health authorities are setting up emergency response teams, isolation centres, and treatment tents in 20 places around the central Mubende district after the first death from a new outbreak of Ebola virus disease was announced on 19 September.
The outbreak has so far claimed the lives of 10 people, including a doctor and three other health workers, out of the total number of 43 confirmed cases. The health ministry tweeted on 6 October that four patients had been discharged from Mubende Hospital, with 39 continuing to receive treatment.
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