Health officials ramp up Ebola response after first cases reported in Uganda
The 5-year-old boy who was infected with Ebola and crossed into Uganda earlier this week has died, the country’s health ministry said Wednesday.
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With confirmation that the long-running outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo had spilled across the country’s eastern border to enmesh Uganda in the epidemic, partners in the Ebola containment effort moved Wednesday to ramp up their responses.
The World Health Organization announced Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has convened a panel of outside experts to advise him on whether the outbreak should be declared a . The so-called emergency committee will meet on
