Kenya’s health ministry confirms second Ebola case
- A relative of the first case, 39-year-old man’s infection raises concerns of a cross-border spread.
- Kenya has reported a second Ebola infection, about a week after confirming its first-ever case of the disease when a citizen who had been living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) travelled to Kenya and died two days later at a Nairobi hospital.
- The second patient, a 39-year-old man who is a close family member of the first case, fell ill on Tuesday and was already in quarantine when he came down with symptoms of fever, fatigue and joint pain, the Ministry of Health said in a statement
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- A relative of the first case, 39-year-old man’s infection raises concerns of a cross-border spread.
- Kenya has reported a second Ebola infection, about a week after confirming its first-ever case of the disease when a citizen who had been living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) travelled to Kenya and died two days later at a Nairobi hospital.
- The second patient, a 39-year-old man who is a close family member of the first case, fell ill on Tuesday and was already in quarantine when he came down with symptoms of fever, fatigue and joint pain, the Ministry of Health said in a statement
Sources: Al Jazeera