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A patient hospitalized in Uganda's Ebola outbreak has died from the disease, pushing the number of deaths in the outbreak to 17, according to health ministry sources quoted in a report from UG Pulse, a media outlet in Uganda.
The patient, a woman, had been treated at the isolation unit at the Kagadi government hospital. Rukia Nakamatte, a ministry spokesperson, told the Pulse that only one Ebola patient remains hospitalized at the facility and that three suspected cases are being monitored.
The outbreak in Kibaale district started at the end of July and involves the Sudan strain of Ebola. A separate outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo involves the Ebola Bundibugyo strain and sickened 15 people and killed 10, according to an Aug 21 World Health Organization (WHO) report.
