On June 12, Ugandan officials from the Ministry of Health released a press statement confirming two Ebola cases. A 5-year-old boy and his grandmother, 50, tested positive for Ebola on June 10 and died two days later, on June 12. A younger brother, 3, is being kept in isolation, along with a 23-year-old man unrelated to the family, at a hospital in Bwera, on the DRC-Uganda border district of Kasese, western Uganda.

The family of three were traveling to Uganda from the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo:

PRESS RELEASE: 5 year old boy who traveled from DRC on 10 June and tested positive for #Ebola died this morning.
2 new confirmed cases of #Ebola- grandmother and a 3y/o sibling to the deceased are currently isolated in Bwera Hospital Ebola Treatment Unit. pic.twitter.com/606n4CBjgi

— Ministry of Health- Uganda (@MinofHealthUG) June 12, 2019

NTV Uganda later confirmed the grandmother's death:

Another Ebola patient has died at Bwera Ebola treatment Unit in Kasese District #NTVNews

Read more � https:///DPwJ2rP1Vk pic.twitter.com/nFpBAKDiro

— NTV UGANDA (@ntvuganda) June 12, 2019

Ebola is a rare, often fatal virus that spreads through close human contact with fluids like blood, feces, vomit. According to the Center for Disease Control, the disease gets its name from the first case discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, with outbreaks in several African countries as well as England, Italy, Russia and the Philippines. Symptoms include high fever, severe headache, muscle pain and unexplained hemorrhaging.

Neighboring DRC has been battling an Ebola outbreak in North Kivu Province since August 2018, that has been difficult contain due to armed
For more information: https://www.naija4african.ml/2019/06/drc-ebola-outbreak-spreads-to.html

Nigeria must not miss out on this opportunity.

How can small nations like Uganda and Congo have Ebola and we won't?
It's cheating.



*spits