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

Ugandan authorities have begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared last week

Ebola cases in Uganda have increased to nine, with 265 people in quarantine. The outbreak's first victim, a male nurse, remains the only fatality. The Health Ministry states eight patients are stable.

The Ugandan health ministry has said the number of confirmed Ebola cases in the country has risen from three to nine. Recall that the East African country last month declared an outbreak of the severe,