Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala with the first confirmed patient dying from it on Wednesday, the health ministry said on Thursday.

After the first Ebola death in Uganda in years, a senior health official says authorities in the African nation are "in full control of the situation."

A male nurse in Uganda has died of Ebola the first recorded death by the disease in the East African country since an outbreak ended in 2023 health off