The man from Jinja was thought to have been infected by his brother when he visited from Kampala
A man has died of Ebola about 150 miles away from the epicentre of the outbreak in Uganda, underscoring how quickly cases are spreading.
A 45-year-old man died in the Jinja district in eastern Uganda near the source of the Nile, the country’s health minister, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, said on Sunday.
It is the first time the outbreak has spread to a new region from the epicentre of the outbreak in central Uganda, where cases have been confined to so far.
Dr Aceng said that the man was probably infected by his brother, who had travelled from the capital Kampala to Jinja earlier this month.