{"id":48606,"date":"2026-10-21T08:18:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T06:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48606"},"modified":"2026-10-21T08:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T06:18:02","slug":"kenya-confirms-new-ebola-case-total-at-nine","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-confirms-new-ebola-case-total-at-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya confirms new Ebola case, total at nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Kenya has confirmed a new Ebola case, bringing the \u200btotal number of infections to nine, the \u200cHealth Ministry said on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The M<span class=\"x_spanWithBackgroundColor\">inistry<\/span>\u00a0said the latest case was a close family member \u200bof the first patient and had \u200balready been placed in quarantine.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;All nine cases \u2060belong to one cluster, and as \u200bof today there is no evidence of transmission \u200boutside this group,&#8221; Director-General for Health Patrick Amoth said in a statement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kenya has been on high \u200balert as a major Ebola outbreak centred \u200bin Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has spread across borders \u200cin \u2060the region.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kenya&#8217;s first Ebola case was identified earlier this month in a man who travelled from DRC to Nairobi and \u200bdied at a \u200bNairobi \u2060hospital on October 5.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Late on Monday, the United States State Department advised Americans \u200bto reconsider travel to Kenya and \u200braised \u2060its travel advisory level for the country because of health risks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Amoth said 134 of \u2060135 \u200bcontacts had been traced \u200band placed in quarantine as of Tuesday.<\/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-48606","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 a new Ebola","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48606","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\/48606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48607,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48606\/revisions\/48607"}],"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=48606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}