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On July 24, 2023, a 24-year-old male animal husbandry officer from Nakaseke District presented to a hospital in Kampala District with history of intermittent nosebleeds. He tested positive for Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). We investigated to identify the source, estimate the magnitude, and determine the drivers of the outbreak, in order to inform control measures. We defined a suspected case as a sudden onset of fever (\u226538\u00b0C) and \u22652 of: headache, skin rash, muscle\/joint pain, intense fatigue, dizziness, coughing, abdominal pain, or unexplained bleeding from any site in a resident of Kinyogoga Village, Nakaseke District from June 1\u2013July 30, 2023. A confirmed case was a suspected case with positive RT-PCR for RVFV. We conducted active case finding, environmental assessments, interviewed secondary cases and the family members of the deceased index case, and collected blood samples for testing. We identified eight case-patients, all males and one died. Median age for both the suspected and confirmed case-patients was 25 years (range: 19\u201328). Symptoms included: high fever (100%), headache (100%), vomiting blood and nose bleeding (25%). The case-patients identified (one animal husbandry officer and seven herders) worked on three affected farms that had recently recorded high rates of abortion and mortality in cattle and shoats. The index case started vomiting blood on July 19, 2023; RVF was confirmed five days later. Prior to that, he had visited three health facilities within the outbreak area that clinically diagnosed brucellosis, typhoid and gastritis. This RVF outbreak likely resulted from contact with infected livestock and their products. 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