Ebola Kills Doctor in Uganda, First Health Worker Killed in Latest Outbreak

Medical staff members of the Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) put on their Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as they get ready to work during a weekly rehearsal at Bwera General Hospital in Bwera bordering with DRC, western Uganda, on Dec. 12, 2018. Isaac Kasamani/AFP via Getty Images

KAMPALA—A Tanzanian doctor working in Uganda who contracted Ebola has died, the first health worker killed by the disease in the latest outbreak in the country, Uganda’s health minister said on Saturday.

“I regret to announce that we have lost our first doctor, Dr. Mohammed Ali, a Tanzanian national, 37-year-old Male,” the health minister, Jane Ruth Aceng, wrote on Twitter.