Uganda on high alert as DRC reports new Ebola case in restive east

On Monday 22nd August, DRC confirmed a new case of Ebola in its violence-prone east, the country’s health ministry said, just weeks after the end of a previous epidemic.

Ebola is spread through direct physical contact with body fluids like blood, saliva, stool, vomit, urine, and sweat of an infected person or animal.