Uganda ebola outbreak kills 53 since September

ENTEBBE, Uganda: Uganda's health minister Jane Ruth Aceng said an Ebola infection has been confirmed in Jinja in eastern Uganda, which is the first time the outbreak has spread to a new region from the country's center.

Since the epidemic was declared on 20th September, authorities have been struggling to contain the highly infectious disease, which is a deadly hemorrhagic fever that generally kills about half o