“In connection with the outbreak of Ebola in Uganda, Rospotrebnadzor is ready to assist the Ugandan side in the soonest normalization of the epidemiological situation,” the message says.

In particular, Rospotrebnadzor handed over proposals for the supply of Russian Ebola vaccine and for sending Russian specialists with experience in combating especially dangerous infections to Uganda.

The agency said Ugandan health authorities declared an Ebola outbreak after confirming a case of a 24-year-old man in Mubende district.

Earlier, Rospotrebnadzor announced a minimal risk of importing Marburg fever from Ghana to Russia.

Chief researcher of the Gamaleya Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, virologist Anatoly Altshtein, in an interview with Radio 1, commented on the situation with Marburg fever.