Uganda has discharged eight people after they recovered from Ebola although at least 265 contacts remain under quarantine, its health minister said.

Scientists suspect that the first person infected in an Ebola outbreak acquires the virus through contact with an infected animal or eating its raw meat. Ebola was discovered in 1

This is the eighth Ebola outbreak in Uganda since the first infection was recorded in 2000. The Sudan Ebola Virus Disease (SUDV) is a highly infectious haemorrhagic fever which is transmitted through contact with infected bodily fluids and tissues.

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.