Ebola: first death in Kenya after imported case
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Mali Actu
A Kenyan patient who died in Nairobi is the first confirmed imported Ebola case in Kenya, after arriving from the Democratic Republic of the Congo via Kampala. Authorities have identified around 50 contacts, while Médecins sans frontières warns of the epidemic’s spread in North Kivu, according to Kenyan health authorities and MSF.
Kenya recorded its first death linked to an imported Ebola case in Nairobi on Monday 5 October 2026, according to Kenyan health authorities. The patient, a Kenyan citizen who had lived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) for seven years, arrived in Nairobi on 3 October and died in a hospital in the capital.
Health authorities identified around 50 people who had been in contact with him. In DR Congo, Médecins sans frontières (MSF) has warned that the disease is spreading at an “alarming rate”, particularly in North Kivu province, while the Congolese government had recently struck a more reassuring tone. Kenya confirms first imported Ebola case
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