#ebola

Kenya has confirmed its first imported case of Ebola Virus Disease after a patient who traveled by road from the Democratic Republic of Congo through Kampala to Nairobi succumbed to the virus at Nairobi Hospital, prompting health authorities to place 28 primary contacts under observation and trace 23 passengers and crew members.

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has appealed to the U.S. government to lift temporary Ebola-related travel restrictions on Uganda. Africa CDC Director General Dr. Jean Kaseya emphasized that Uganda has successfully contained the virus, tracking no new cases since late June 2026, and urged scientific evidence over broad travel penalties.

President Yoweri Museveni has revealed that Uganda has gone five days without a new Ebola case, using a live national address to ban handshakes and demand strict public discipline to completely eliminate the outbreak.

Uganda will construct four emergency medical camps inside the Democratic Republic of Congo to treat Ebola patients at the source, a strategy backed by the WHO after Uganda canceled the Namugongo Martyrs Day celebrations to avert a regional health crisis.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has praised Uganda's aggressive border screening and medical surveillance systems for successfully containing a potential Ebola outbreak along the DRC border.

An Indian Air Force C-17 aircraft has delivered 43 tonnes of emergency medical and diagnostic kits to Entebbe Airport to bolster the Africa CDC's regional Ebola response. Handed over by High Commissioner Upender Singh Rawat, the supplies will be forwarded via Uganda's NMS to support the active Bundibugyo Ebola virus intervention in the DRC.

Regional health ministers have adopted an urgent 11-point joint action plan at Munyonyo to contain the Ebola outbreak. The cross-border intervention follows an announcement by the Ministry of Health confirming that Uganda's total cases have risen to five, including a local health worker and a driver.

President Museveni has approved an Africa CDC proposal to set up a continental Incident Management Support Team in Kampala to coordinate Ebola containment efforts. Meeting with Director General Dr. Jean Kaseya, the President emphasized that the Bundibugyo strain remains highly manageable through strict public health attention.

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Ministry of Health officials in Kasese District have confirmed that the five-year-old child who was diagnosed with the Ebola Virus Disease in Kasese district...

A child in Kasese District has tested positive for Ebola Disease Virus in Kasese District that borders the Democratic Republic of Congo. Minister of Health...