Uganda Faces Ebola Crisis

Foreign Policy – Authorities are scrambling to quell the country’s biggest outbreak in two decades. Ugandan authorities are scrambling to quell a deadly Ebola outbreak that is believed to have killed 39 people and infected at least 54 people, fueling concerns of a wider public health crisis since the virus strain currently circulating has no available vaccine. The latest outbreak—Uganda’s biggest in two decades—was first reported in September and has since hit at least six districts and Kampala, the country’s capital. On Tuesday, officials said a man who had died in a Kampala hospital last Friday had Ebola, further compounding fears about how far the virus had spread. Continue reading