Ebola outbreak spreads as Uganda confirms five cases (opens in new tab)

Uganda confirmed three new Ebola cases Saturday, raising its total in the current outbreak to five cases and one death since the virus was detected there on May 15. The new patients are a Ugandan driver who transported the country’s first confirmed case, a Ugandan health worker exposed while treating that patient, and a woman from the Democratic Republic of Congo who entered Uganda. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said three Red Cross volunteers from Mongb...