{"id":141974,"date":"2026-05-23T14:02:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/uganda-confirms-three-new-ebola-cases-as-total-rises-to-five\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T14:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:02:53","slug":"uganda-confirms-three-new-ebola-cases-as-total-rises-to-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/uganda-confirms-three-new-ebola-cases-as-total-rises-to-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda confirms three new Ebola cases as total rises to five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Uganda has confirmed three new cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), bringing the total number of infections linked to the Bundibugyo strain to five.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus said the newly confirmed cases include a Ugandan health worker, a driver and a Congolese national who travelled from Ituri Province, in the neighbouring Democratic Republic Congo (DRC), for medical care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis brings the total number of people in Uganda who have been tested positive for Ebola Disease caused by the Bundibugyo virus to five,\u201d read the statement.<\/p>\n<p>He commended Ugandan health authorities for their efforts to detect, monitor and care for people suspected of and confirmed for contracting the Ebola virus.<\/p>\n<p>Further, he called for vigilance to control expansion of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this critical moment in the outbreak response, it is vital that authorities maintain high vigilance to control expansion of the virus,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>WHO said its working side by side with Africa CDC, and partners in the DRC and Uganda, to contain the outbreak, support affected people, and bolster a coordinated response.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/uganda-confirms-three-new-ebola-cases-as-total-rises-to-five\/\">Uganda confirms three new Ebola cases as total rises to five<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda has confirmed three new cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), bringing the total number of infections linked to the Bundibugyo strain to five. In a statement, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus said the newly confirmed cases include a Ugandan health worker, a driver and a Congolese national who travelled from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}