Health authorities in Uganda say Ebola cases in the country have risen to nine while 265 other people are being monitored under quarantine.

Health workers wearing protective gear at an Ebola treatment centre. Uganda confirmed nine Ebola cases on February 10, 2025, following an outbreak first announced on January 30, 2025. Uganda’s Ministry of Health has reported six new cases of Ebola as the country struggles to contain the new outbreak that was first announced on January 30.

Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala with the first confirmed patient dying from it on Wednesday, the health ministry said on Thursday.

KAMPALA, Uganda -- A nurse in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, died after testing positive for Ebola, a health official said Thursday, in the first recorded fatality since the last outbreak ended in 2023.

Uganda has begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola following an outbreak that has killed one nurse in the east African country.

Ugandan health officials on Thursday confirmed a case of Ebola in the capital Kampala, in a nurse who sought care at a number of facilities.

Uganda has begun trials of a new vaccine in response to a recent outbreak of Ebola in the capital Kampala. There have been 7 confirmed, including a nurse who died on January 29. This outbreak of the Sudan strain of the virus could prove to be a challenge.

Ebola cases in Uganda have risen to nine, while 265 other people are being monitored under quarantine, health authorities have said. The nine cases include the first victim, a male nurse who died the day before the outbreak was declared on January 30.