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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Evelyne Musambi

Kenya’s Ebola cases hit 8, with no community transmission yet

Kenya Ebola - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Ebola cases in Kenya rose to eight on Sunday after another person tested positive while in quarantine, having been identified as a contact of the first patient.

Health Ministry Director-General Dr. Patrick Amoth said the eighth case involved a 49-year-old patient attendant who had attended to the first Ebola patient, who died at Nairobi Hospital two days after arriving in the country from Congo via Uganda.

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