- Kenya's Health Ministry has confirmed the country's first imported case of Ebola , involving a Kenyan national who returned from Congo via Uganda on Saturday.
- The patient tested positive for the rare Bundibugyo strain of the virus after displaying symptoms of haemorrhagic fever and subsequently died at Nairobi Hospital late on Monday evening.
- Health authorities have placed the country on high alert, enforcing a mandatory 21-day quarantine on 28 identified contacts while actively tracing 23 fellow flight passengers.
- Kenya is the fourth nation to record a case during the latest epidemic, which originated in eastern Congo in mid-May and has become the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record.
- The ongoing crisis in Congo has claimed more than 4,000 lives across 8,300 confirmed cases, with health officials struggling to contain the virus as no licensed vaccine or treatment exists for this strain.
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Kenya confirms first Ebola case after patient dies as Congo outbreak spreads
