00:00Uganda's Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week, Africa's top public health
00:05agency said Thursday, with a new cluster emerging from a four-year-old child who recently died
00:12of the infectious disease.
00:14Three of five new cases have been confirmed as Ebola, with two cited as probably Ebola.
00:21Dr. Nga Shingungu of the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention told reporters.
00:30The Africa CDC reported that there was no direct epidemiological link between the new
00:35cluster and another one, accounting for nine previous Ebola cases, including the first
00:42victim of the outbreak.
00:45Ebola is now spreading in five of Uganda's 146 districts, it said.
00:51That includes Kampala, the capital where the outbreak was declared.
00:55On January 30, two Ebola deaths have been confirmed.
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