Hours after billionaire Elon Musk told the president's Cabinet that the U.S. had quickly restored canceled aid to fight Ebola in Uganda, the Trump administration officially ended at least four of five U.

This is the eighth Ebola outbreak in Uganda since the first infection was recorded in 2000. The Sudan Ebola Virus Disease (SUDV) is a highly infectious haemorrhagic fever which is transmitted through contact with infected bodily fluids and tissues.

Scientists suspect that the first person infected in an Ebola outbreak acquires the virus through contact with an infected animal or eating its raw meat. Ebola was discovered in 1

Ugandan officials appear to have largely contained an outbreak of Ebola virus but did so without the same level of support they have previously received from the U.S. government.

Rita Ninsiina, ebola survivor, leaving the isolation centre at Mulago Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Ebola in Uganda raising concerns of spreading outbreak - There are no approved vaccines for the Sudan strain of Ebola that's infecting people in Uganda

A second Ebola patient, a four-year-old child, has died in Uganda, the WHO said, citing the country's health ministry.

Uganda has reported the second death of a child from Ebola and concerns raised over disease surveillance in the outbreak. A second Ebola patient, a 4-year-old child, has died in Uganda, the World Health Organization said,

The ministry of health said they are continuing with "aggressing Ebola response," which includes the process of contact tracing, management and vaccination of all contacts linked the case