The lone fatality from the latest outbreak was a male nurse who died the day before the outbreak was declared in Kampala on Jan. 30

Uganda has discharged eight patients who have recovered from the Sudan strain of Ebola after they tested negative twice, health officials have said. The disease has killed one person and infected eight others since an outbreak was reported last month,

A Ugandan doctor vaccinates the contact of a patient who tested positive during the launch of the vaccination for the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus with a trial vaccine at the Mulago Guest House (Isolation centre) in Kampala,

For the vast majority of people, COVID-19 will be the first and only pandemic of our lifetimes—but for the human race, it’s not the first or the deadliest. In Shakespeare’s time, for example, there was nothing unusual about quarantines and closures of public places during plague outbreaks.