A nurse in Uganda has died of Ebola, a health official said on Thursday, marking the first recorded death in the country from the severe illness in two years. The 32-year-old male nurse was an employee of Mulago Hospital,

After the first Ebola death in Uganda in years, a senior health official says authorities in the African nation are "in full control of the situation."

Kenya has heightened surveillance across all counties and border points following the confirmation of an Ebola outbreak in neighbouring Uganda. Uganda's health ministry on Thursday declared an Ebola outbreak after a 32-year-old male nurse working at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala succumbed to the Sudan Ebola virus Wednesday.