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Kenya Confirms Third Ebola Case Linked to DRC Traveler

The new positive raises the risk of more importations because several contacts and some passengers remain untraced while the DRC outbreak continues to spread.

A Kenyan health worker checks the temperatures of travelers crossing from Uganda to Kenya as part of measures to contain the spread of Ebola virus, in Busia, Kenya, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
A medical worker directs motorcyclists to the health port at the Malaba crossing-point between Kenya and Uganda after a man who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo travelled and died of a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo species at the Nairobi Hospital, in Malaba, Kenya October 8, 2026. REUTERS/Jackson Adika
People disinfect their hands as a Kenyan health worker checks the temperatures of travelers crossing from Uganda to Kenya as part of measures to contain the spread of Ebola virus, in Busia, Kenya, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
A motorcyclist waits to be processed for health screening at the Malaba crossing-point between Kenya and Uganda after a man who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo travelled and died of a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo species at the Nairobi Hospital, in Malaba, Kenya October 8, 2026. REUTERS/Jackson Adika

Overview

  • Kenya’s health ministry confirmed on Friday that a 65-year-old woman tested positive for Ebola while in quarantine after being identified as a contact of the index patient who arrived from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and died on Oct. 5.
  • A 39-year-old relative who developed symptoms on Oct. 13–14 is the country’s second confirmed case and remains in stable condition in isolation.
  • All three Kenyan cases are epidemiologically linked to the index patient and were identified among quarantined contacts, and health officials say there is currently no evidence of community transmission.
  • WHO and partners have sent supplies, trained thousands of health workers, set up incident-management support and urged enhanced screening at ports of entry while advising against travel bans.
  • Contact tracing faces gaps because several contacts and at least six airline passengers have not been reached, which keeps cross-border spread and further importations a clear risk given the large Bundibugyo-strain outbreak in eastern DRC.