Ebola: Kenya confirms eighth case linked to first patient
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Daily Maverick
Kenya has confirmed an eighth Ebola case in a 49-year-old man who worked as an assistant to a patient and developed a fever, headaches and muscle pain. He is believed to have been exposed to the first case recorded in the country, according to the Kenyan Health Ministry cited by Reuters, while the outbreak is also spreading in a new Congolese province.
Kenya has confirmed an eighth case of Ebola, involving a 49-year-old man who was probably exposed to the first patient, Health Ministry official Patrick Amoth told Citizen TV. The patient, who is not a health professional, developed a fever, headaches and muscle pain.
The man worked as an assistant to a patient and cleaned utensils and laundry, among other tasks. He developed symptoms on Saturday while in quarantine, and his test came back positive on Sunday, according to a source at the Health Ministry. The first case was detected in a man who had come from the Democratic Republic of Congo and died at a hospital in Nairobi on 5 October.
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