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Uganda Confirms First Ebola Case Outside Outbreak in Congo

Associated Press

   KAMPALA, UGANDA - A child in Uganda has tested positive for Ebola in
   the first cross-border case of the deadly virus since an outbreak
   started in neighboring Congo last year, Uganda's health ministry said
   late Tuesday, in a blow to efforts by health workers who for months
   sought to prevent contamination across the heavily traveled frontier.

   The 5-year-old Congolese boy has been isolated with family members at a
   hospital in a western district near the Congo border, Ugandan Health
   Minister Jane Aceng told reporters.

   The announcement puts new pressure on the World Health Organization to
   declare the Ebola outbreak -- the second-deadliest in history -- a
   global health emergency. The outbreak is unfolding amid unprecedented
   challenges of rebel attacks and community resistance in a region that
   had never experienced Ebola before.

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