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Kenya reports first Ebola case imported from DR Congo after patient dies

Agence France-Presse · South China Morning Post
Published 6 Oct 2026, 8:39 pm·1 d ago·1 min read
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Kenya reported its first-ever Ebola death, the health minister announced on Tuesday, after a Kenyan man who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo died after returning to the country. In mid-May, the DR Congo declared its 17th Ebola outbreak, an extremely deadly disease that has killed more than 15,000 people in Africa over the past 50 years. While Kenya has previously never reported a case, neighbouring Uganda recorded 20 Ebola cases – almost all people who had travelled from the...

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