Uganda reports 2nd Ebola death, victim a 4-year-old

KAMPALA: A second Ebola patient, a four-year-old child, has died in Uganda, the WHO said, citing the country's health ministry. The fatality brings the number of confirmed cases in Uganda to 10.

The country declared an outbreak of the highly infectious and often fatal haemorrhagic disease in Jan after the death of a male nurse at Mulago National Referral Hospital in capital Kampala.

The WHO's Uganda office said late Saturday the ministry had reported "an additional positive case in Mulago hospital of a four-and-a-half-year-old child, who tragically passed away" Tuesday. Mulago is the country's sole referral hospital for Ebola cases.

The ministry said on Feb 18 that all eight Ebola patients under care had been discharged but that at least 265 contacts remained under strict quarantine in Kampala and two other cities.

(This is a Reuters story)