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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Evelyne Musambi

What to know about Kenya's first Ebola case and how officials are responding

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

Kenya’s first Ebola case, a patient who travelled for weeks by road and air through three countries without being detected until he arrived in Nairobi, has raised questions about border control and how to trace the virus across countries.

The patient, a Kenyan man, had been living in Congo for seven years and started feeling ill a month ago. He had traveled by road to Uganda, before boarding a flight to the Kenyan capital on Saturday. There, he tested positive for the Ebola virus in a hospital and died Monday.

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