Uganda confirms first Ebola case outside outbreak in DRC

The Ebola epidemic that has been confined to the Democratic Republic of the Congo since it began 10 months ago has made its way to neighboring Uganda, the country confirmed yesterday. A 5-year-old boy who was traveling with his family from the DRC tested positive for the disease and is currently in a treatment center in the Ugandan border town of Bwera. Several of his family members are also ill, although their test results are still pending. The boy and his family first stopped into a health center in the DRC and were directed to an isolation facility, but half the family then fled to Uganda. The country has already vaccinated some 5,000 health workers in anticipation of the disease spreading from the DRC, where there have been 2,071 cases and 1,396 deaths.