{"id":47357,"date":"2026-10-06T11:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47357"},"modified":"2026-10-06T11:33:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:33:25","slug":"kenya-confirms-first-ebola-case-imported-from-drc-patient-has-died","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-confirms-first-ebola-case-imported-from-drc-patient-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya confirms first Ebola case imported from DRC, patient has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Kenya has \u200crecorded its first confirmed Ebola case, a Kenyan citizen who has been living in Democratic Republic \u200bof Congo (DRC) and arrived in Nairobi \u200bon Saturday, Health Minister Aden Duale \u2060said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The patient has since died, and 28 \u200bcontacts have been identified so far including \u200bfamily members and health workers, Duale told a press conference.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">DRC has been battling its largest-ever Ebola outbreak, caused \u200bby the rare Bundibugyo species.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The outbreak \u200bwas declared in mid-May but may have started months \u200cearlier \u2060and has so far resisted containment efforts, with the Central African country recording more than 8 000 cases and over 4 000 deaths.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The outbreak \u200bearlier spread \u200bto Uganda, \u2060which reported 20 cases and two deaths, but the World Health \u200bOrganization declared Uganda free of the \u200bdisease \u2060in August.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Ebola spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of infected people, living or \u2060dead. \u200bIt can cause fever, \u200bvomiting, diarrhoea and, in severe cases, internal and external \u200bbleeding.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34676,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-47357","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Kenya has \u200crecorded its first confirmed Ebola case","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47358,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47357\/revisions\/47358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}