Uganda discharges all eight Ebola patients, health minister says

Health workers wearing protective gear at an Ebola treatment centre.

Health workers wearing protective gear at an Ebola treatment centre. 

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Uganda has discharged eight people after they recovered from Ebola although at least 265 contacts remain under quarantine, its health minister said.

Uganda declared an outbreak of the highly infectious and often fatal haemorrhagic disease late last month after one man – a male nurse at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala – died.