Kenya records first Ebola case from Congo outbreak that has killed thousands

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Kenya records first Ebola case from Congo outbreak that has killed thousands

The patient, who had traveled from Congo via Uganda, died Monday. Kenya is the fourth country to confirm an Ebola case in the outbreak started in May.

October 6, 2026 at 8:21 a.m. EDTToday at 8:21 a.m. EDT

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*Kenyan Health Secretary Aden Duale speaks at a news conference in Nairobi on Tuesday. (Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images)*

By Rael Ombuor

NAIROBI — Kenya has confirmed its first case of Ebola from the outbreak that started in the Democratic Republic of Congo in May.

A Kenyan citizen who had been living in Congo entered Nairobi on Saturday and died Monday night at a Nairobi hospital, Kenyan Health Minister Aden Duale told reporters Tuesday. The patient fell ill about a month ago and had been treated in several hospitals in Congo before traveling by road to Kampala, Uganda, Duale said, and then flying to Kenya.

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