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Uganda battles Ebola and Mpox amid funding challenges 

Sudanese doctors inside an isolation centre with suspected Ebola patients in Mubende, Uganda on October 27, 2022.

Photo credit: File | AFP

By  Nelson Naturinda

Bureau chief based in Kampala

Nation Media Group

As Uganda battled the outbreak of Mpox, whose infections increased during the December festivities, the country on Thursday confirmed the outbreak of the deadly Ebola after a patient died on Wednesday.

The patient was a 32-year-old male nurse at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala.

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