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Second patient dies of Ebola in Uganda: health official

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Upon returning to Uganda two brothers - aged five and three - and the 50-year-old grandmother tested positive for the virus, and the family was quarantined in Bwera, a border town in the country's west.

"The deceased has been confirmed as the grandmother of the five-year-old boy who died. Both victims had attended the burial of an Ebola patient in Congo, but returned to Uganda," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

About 25,000 people cross the district's main border crossing of Mpwonde at a daily basis, according to the DRC health ministry.WHO said 27 others in contact with the family had been placed under close monitoring. WHO said 12 members of the family that attended the burial in Congo were placed in isolation in the DRC, but six"escaped and crossed over to Uganda" on June 9.

 

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