Boy dies of Ebola in Uganda in first cross-border case

A health worker wearing Ebola protection gear leaves a changing room before entering the Biosecure Emergency Care Unit at an Ebola treatment centre in Beni, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, March 30, 2019. [Reuters]

A five-year-old boy has died of Ebola in Uganda, a health official said on Wednesday, in the first case of the disease crossing the border from the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The boy died overnight, the official told Reuters, after entering Uganda from Congo with his family. His mother had returned to Congo to nurse her father, who died of the disease, the health minister said on Tuesday.