Uganda, May 15 -- The Ministry of Health has confirmed an imported case of Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease in Uganda.

The Ministry's Permanent Secretary Dr Diana Atwine said, in a statement released on Friday, that the case involves a 59-year-old Congolese man who had been admitted to Kibuli Muslim Hospital in Kampala on May 11, 2026.

He is said to have presented with respiratory distress, fever, epigastric pain, nausea and difficulty passing urine.

"While in admission, he deteriorated and died on May 14, 2026 in the Intensive Care Unit with bleeding symptoms," Dr Atwine said. The body was taken back to the Democratic Republic of Congo at 8pm the same day.

On May 15, the ministry received reports of a suspected Ebola case from public h...