{"id":48378,"date":"2026-10-19T08:05:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48378"},"modified":"2026-10-19T08:05:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:05:46","slug":"kenya-confirms-eighth-ebola-case-as-regional-outbreak-spreads","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-confirms-eighth-ebola-case-as-regional-outbreak-spreads\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya confirms eighth Ebola case as regional outbreak spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Kenya has confirmed one more \u200bEbola case, bringing the total number of \u200cinfections in the country to eight, Director-General for Health Patrick Amoth said on Sunday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Today, 38 people were tested, and one \u200btested positive for Ebola,&#8221; Amoth said in an \u200binterview on Kenya&#8217;s Citizen Television.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;He is a \u206049-year-old man who is not a healthcare worker. He \u200bdeveloped fever, headache and muscle pain.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Amoth said the new \u200bcase was a patient attendant who cleaned utensils and linens, and he was probably exposed to Kenya&#8217;s first Ebola case, \u200bdiscovered earlier this month, in a man who travelled \u200bfrom Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Nairobi and died at a \u200cNairobi \u2060hospital on October 5.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The latest case developed symptoms on Saturday, was separated from other people in quarantine, and was tested for the virus with the result \u200breturning positive on \u200bSunday, a \u2060Health Ministry source said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kenya has been on heightened alert, as a major Ebola outbreak \u200bcentered in Congo has spread across borders \u200bin \u2060the region.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>DRC confirmed on Sunday that its outbreak had spread to an eighth province, North Ubangi, underscoring concerns \u2060about \u200bwider regional transmission.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34548,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-48378","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Kenya has confirmed one more \u200bEbola case","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48378","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48380,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48378\/revisions\/48380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}