The Ebola outbreak that has infected more than 2,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo has now spread outside the country, the World Health Organization announced
Tuesday.
A 5-year-old Congolese boy was diagnosed with the virus in Uganda, the country's Ministry of Health and WHO said. "The child and his family entered the country through Bwera Border post and sought medical care at Kagando hospital where health workers identified Ebola as a possible cause of illness," WHO said in a statement. It might take 2 more years to contain Congo Ebola outbreak, WHO official saysThe child is receiving supportive care at an Ebola treatment unit in Bwera.
Uganda and WHO"have dispatched a Rapid Response Team to Kasese to start contact tracing and management of cases that are likely to occur," the international agency said. The deadliest outbreak occurred in 2014 in West Africa, when more than 11,000 people died from Ebola. This is the 10th outbreak in Congo since 1976. CNN's Susan Scutti contributed to this report.
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