It is the first known cross-border spread of the outbreak since it began in eastern Congo last August.
Uganda on Thursday recorded its second Ebola fatality after a family contaminated with the virus crossed from neighbouring DR Congo, prompting World Health Organization officials to prepare an emergency meeting over the spread of the outbreak.
Six had “escaped” an isolation ward in DRC and returned to Uganda via an unofficial crossing on the porous border on Sunday, according to the UN’s World Health Organization . Travellers had to pass through thermal scanners to check their temperature and disinfect their hands. The infected three-year-old was repatriated by ambulance along with his father, mother, her six-month-old baby, and the nanny.
Uganda has experienced several outbreaks in the past, most recently in 2012, while in 2000 more than 200 people died in an outbreak in the north of the country.The European Union on Thursday announced emergency funding of 3.5 million euros for Uganda and South Sudan to prepare for and fight the outbreak.
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