Ebola in Kenya: 293 tests find no new cases
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Beninwebtv
Kenya’s Ministry of Health detected no new Ebola infections among 293 samples analysed after an imported case was confirmed on 6 October. The WHO recorded 127 contacts, 94 of whom were placed in quarantine, while more than 665,000 travellers were screened at the borders, according to health authorities and the WHO.
Kenya detected no new infection with the Ebola virus after analysing 293 samples, the Ministry of Health announced on Sunday 11 October. The only positive result remains that of the first confirmed imported case on 6 October.
The patient, a Kenyan national who lived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, arrived in Nairobi after passing through Kampala. He was isolated in a Nairobi hospital, where he died, according to the Ministry of Health. The analyses were carried out by the National Virology Reference Laboratory and the Kenya Medical Research Institute.
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