{"id":48496,"date":"2026-10-20T07:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48496"},"modified":"2026-10-20T07:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:51:15","slug":"us-raises-kenya-travel-advisory-over-health-risks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-raises-kenya-travel-advisory-over-health-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"US raises Kenya travel advisory over health risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The United States (US) State Department said \u200bon Monday it has asked Americans to reconsider \u200cany travel to Kenya and raised its travel advisory for the African nation due to health risks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The level was changed \u200bfrom Level two to Level three due \u200bto health risks,&#8221; the travel advisory, by the US \u2060embassy in Kenya said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The advisory was raised to \u200blevel three, which asks Americans to reconsider travel, \u200bfrom an earlier level two that urges increased caution.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Reconsider travel to Kenya due to risk of health, crime, kidnapping, terrorism, \u200bunrest, and traffic safety. Some areas have increased \u200brisk,&#8221; the advisory read.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kenya confirmed one more Ebola case on Sunday, \u200cbringing \u2060the total number of infections in the country to eight.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kenya has been on heightened alert, as a major Ebola outbreak centred in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has spread across \u200bborders in \u200bthe region.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>DRC \u2060confirmed on Sunday that its outbreak had spread to an eighth province, North \u200bUbangi, underscoring concerns about wider regional transmission.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Medical \u200bservices \u2060in Kenya are limited. They are often unavailable in rural areas. Medical facilities in Kenya often lack \u2060sufficient \u200bmedicine and equipment,&#8221; the US \u200btravel advisory on Kenya said in its summary.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32809,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-48496","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"US raise travel advisory for the African nation due to health risks","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48496","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\/48496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48498,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48496\/revisions\/48498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}