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Kenya Reports Second Ebola Death and Nine Confirmed Cases

Officials say aggressive contact tracing plus quarantine have kept infections confined to a single linked cluster.

A health worker helps a colleague to put on a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in a room at an Ebola isolation facility at The Nairobi Hospital, Kenya, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
A health worker collects a blood sample from a patient before administering a dose of the Tumaini vaccine against Ebola virus, in Ituri, Congo.

Overview

  • Kenya confirmed on Friday that a 65-year-old close relative of the first patient died after developing Ebola symptoms while in quarantine.
  • The first confirmed patient had returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo via Uganda, tested positive at Nairobi Hospital, and died after falling ill in early October.
  • Health teams identified about 135 contacts, placed roughly 118 in quarantine, and found eight contacts tested positive while isolated, including four health workers and four family members.
  • Seven patients remain in treatment at two isolation facilities and some contacts who completed a 21-day symptom-free quarantine are being released starting Saturday.
  • The cluster traces to the DRC outbreak driven by the Bundibugyo strain, which has caused thousands of cases and has no licensed strain-specific vaccine, raising continued cross-border risk and prompting international support for surveillance and response.