{"id":48570,"date":"2026-10-20T18:39:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48570"},"modified":"2026-10-20T18:40:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:40:43","slug":"kenya-confirms-new-ebola-case-total-at-nine-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-confirms-new-ebola-case-total-at-nine-health-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya confirms new Ebola case, total at nine: Health Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya has confirmed a new Ebola case, bringing the total number of infections to nine, the \u200cHealth Ministry said this Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry said the latest case was a close family member of the first patient and had already been placed in quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All nine cases \u2060belong to one cluster, and as of today there is no evidence of transmission outside this group,&#8221; Director-General for Health Patrick Amoth said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kenya has been on high alert as a major Ebola outbreak centred in Democratic Republic of Congo has spread across borders \u200cin \u2060the region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kenya&#8217;s first Ebola case was identified earlier this month in a man who travelled from DRC to Nairobi and died at a Nairobi \u2060hospital on October 5.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Late on Monday, the United State Department advised Americans to reconsider travel to Kenya and raised \u2060its travel advisory level for the country because of health risks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amoth said 134 of \u2060135 contacts had been traced and placed in quarantine as of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":48571,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-48570","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kenya Health Ministry confirms ninth Ebola case as regional threat persists","published_date":"2026-10-20 18:38:51","news_description":"Kenya Health Ministry confirms ninth Ebola case as regional threat persists","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48570","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\/48570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48573,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48570\/revisions\/48573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}