Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda has caused over 4,800 deaths, led Uganda to impose a 21-day quarantine on returnees from DRC, and included an attack killing a nurse responding to a case.

Past coverage

We covered the same outbreak's escalation over the past month: on 3 October we reported the DRC death toll passing 4,000 and a treatment centre burning down, and in September we reported its spread to new provinces and health zones. In August, Uganda appeared close to ending its own outbreak, making the new cross-border quarantine a notable reversal.

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