Vaccine-Resistant Ebola Strain Spreads in Uganda

The East African nation’s health system has already been weakened by the coronavirus pandemic and budget cuts .As graves was prepared for an Ebola victim in Mubende, Uganda,
KAMPALA, Uganda—Uganda’s health system, already weakened by the coronavirus pandemic and budget cuts, is struggling to contain an Ebola outbreak caused by a strain for which there are no proven vaccines or antiviral treatments and which can’t be detected by rapid tests.

Two weeks after Ugandan authorities first announced that a 24-year-old man had died of the relatively rare Sudan strain of Ebola, there are now 43 confirmed cases, including nine deaths. Nineteen other people who either lived in or had visited the young man’s village are also believed to have died from the virus as far back as early August, but were never tested.