The World Health Organization has mobilized senior health experts and its staff in Uganda following the confirmation of a case of Sudan hemorrhagic fever (a closely related disease to Ebola with similar symptoms) in the country's densely populated capital, Kampala. The only confirmed case so far was a nurse at Mulago National Referral Hospital, the country's largest. So far, 45 contacts have been identified and are under ongoing monitoring. The country's previous outbreak occurred in 2022.
Immediately prior to this, an Ebola outbreak was suspected in a region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo far from Uganda, with 12 cases and eight deaths. Meanwhile, in Tanzania, which borders Uganda to the south, an outbreak of Marburg fever continues. In neighboring Rwanda, the outbreak of the same virus ended in December 2024.
