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Three more Ebola patients have died in Uganda, the health ministry said on Friday, bringing the total death toll to four, days after authorities confirmed an outbreak of a deadly strain of the disease for which no vaccine has yet been approved. Became.
Uganda’s health ministry said it had confirmed a total of 11 Ebola cases, including four deaths.
The current outbreak attributed to the Ebola-Sudan strain appears to have started around early September in a small village in the Mubende district, officials say.
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Seven other deaths are being investigated in connection with the outbreak in Mubende, about 130 km west of the capital, Kampala.
The first victim was a 24-year-old man who died earlier this week.
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According to the World Health Organization, the Ebola-Sudan strain is less contagious and had a lower fatality rate in previous outbreaks than Ebola Zaire, the strain that killed nearly 2,300 people in the 2018-2020 epidemic in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is said that