The United Nations has launched an emergency appeal to raise $11.2 million to help fund Uganda's response to an Ebola outbreak that has killed two people, after the country's health budget was strained by U.

Uganda is battling an outbreak of Ebola virus disease that has so far claimed two lives and affected nine, as its Health Ministry, with the support of the World Health Organization, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and other partners, works to contain the outbreak.

Over the weekend the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a new setback in Uganda's Ebola Sudan outbreak. The country reported a new fatal case, which involved a 4-year-old child who died on February 25.

A four-year-old has been identified as the second patient to die from the Ebola virus in Uganda after a recent outbreak.

A young child has died of the Ebola virus in Uganda, the second victim of an outbreak that was announced in late January, the health ministry said on Saturday.On Tuesday, the east African

Uganda said it "contained" the latest outbreak of the Sudan Ebola virus, which was confirmed by the Health Ministry in late January. The East African country discharged all eight Ebola patients on Tuesday after they tested negative and no new deaths have been reported from the disease.

Uganda is facing renewed concerns over its Ebola outbreak after a second confirmed death from the virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that a 4-year-old child succumbed to the deadly disease,