Health
Kenya's first Ebola case passed Uganda and Kenya airport screening before death in Nairobi
October 10, 2026 at 04:58 AM · Updated 6d ago
Coverage
3 reports · 1 in Arabic, 2 in English · over 13 hours
AJAl Jazeera Arabic
حالة إيبولا واحدة تكفي.. درس كينيا في هشاشة الأمن الصحي لأفريقيا
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CNCNN
Kenya prepared for Ebola. It still slipped through — a warning of wider cross-border spread
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BNBBC News
Kenya's first Ebola case: Questions remain after man travelled across three nations undetected
(opens the publisher’s site)A Kenyan man died of Ebola after traveling from DRC via Uganda to Nairobi, passing airport screening undetected, becoming Kenya's first confirmed case.
- The businessman traveled by road from DRC's North Kivu through Uganda, flying to Nairobi on 3 October after passing airport screening in Uganda and Kenya.
- Kenyan authorities confirmed Bundibugyo Ebola, the country's first case, and said the man died on 5 October.
- Uganda's health ministry said the man had a normal temperature during Entebbe screening and spent less than 24 hours in the country.
- The WHO has recorded 8,728 confirmed cases and 4,205 deaths in the DRC outbreak, which has spread across seven provinces.
- The victim was a Kenyan national who had lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo for seven years.
- Kenyan health authorities are tracking 57 contacts of the man who died of Ebola.
- No vaccine exists for the Bundibugyo strain that killed the Kenyan man.