5-Year-Old Boy Dies of Ebola as Uganda Cases Rise to 3

5-Year-Old Boy Dies of Ebola as Uganda Cases Rise to 3
Ebola health worker at a treatment center in Beni, Eastern Congo. On April, 16, 2019. AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro
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KASINDI, Congo—A 5-year-old boy vomiting blood became the first cross-border victim of Ebola in the current outbreak on Wednesday, while two more people in Uganda tested positive for the highly contagious disease that has killed nearly 1,400 in Congo.

The boy, part of a Congolese family who crossed into Uganda earlier in the week, died overnight, the World Health Organization said. Ugandan authorities said the two new cases are his 3-year-old brother and 50-year-old grandmother, who have been isolated at a hospital near the Congo border. Uganda now has three confirmed Ebola cases.