A 4-year-old child became the second person to die this year of Ebola in Uganda, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Saturday, in a setback for health officials who had hoped for a quick end to the outbreak that began at the end of January.

The United Nations has launched an emergency appeal to raise $11.2 million to help fund Uganda's response to an Ebola outbreak that has killed two people, after the country's health budget was strained by U.

Uganda is battling an outbreak of Ebola virus disease that has so far claimed two lives and affected nine, as its Health Ministry, with the support of the World Health Organization, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and other partners, works to contain the outbreak.

A second Ebola patient, a four-year-old child, has died in Uganda, the WHO said, citing the country's health ministry.

A young child has died of the Ebola virus in Uganda, the second victim of an outbreak that was announced in late January, the health ministry said on Saturday.On Tuesday, the east African

Ebola patient, a four-year-old child, has died in Uganda, the World Health Organization said, citing the country’s health ministry. The fatality brings the number of confirmed cases in Uganda to 10. The East African country declared an outbreak of the highly infectious and often fatal haemorrhagic disease in January after the death of a male nurse at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in the capital Kampala.

Uganda is facing renewed concerns over its Ebola outbreak after a second confirmed death from the virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that a 4-year-old child succumbed to the deadly disease,