Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala with the first confirmed patient dying from it on Wednesday, the health ministry said on Thursday.

After the first Ebola death in Uganda in years, a senior health official says authorities in the African nation are "in full control of the situation."

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed an outbreak of the Sudan virus disease (SVD) in Uganda. SVD belongs to the same genus as the fatal Ebola virus disease. The infectious haemorrhagic fever is transmitted through contact with bodily fluids and tissue