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Ugandan officials are preparing to deploy a trial vaccine as part of efforts to stem an outbreak of Ebola in the capital, Kampala

Test results on the sick people are pending, and a top WHO official said the outbreak response is proceeding rapidly.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says disease surveillance has been heightened over the recent Ebola outbreak in Uganda.

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."

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. It is the East African country's ninth outbreak since it recorded its first infection of the viral disease in 2000.

Health officials worry the unusual strain will spread in crowded Kampala after the death of a male nurse.

After a nurse died of the Ebola virus, the country has declared Ebola outbreak and is now deploying vaccine against the Sudan strain of the virus.