US raises Kenya travel advisory to Level 3 amid Ebola outbreak and security concerns

The US State Department has raised its Kenya travel advisory from Level 2 to Level 3, urging Americans to reconsider travel over health and security risks.

• The State Department cited Ebola, crime, kidnapping, terrorism, and civil unrest, keeping a Level 4 advisory for Nairobi's Eastleigh and Kibera areas.
• Kenyan health officials said Ebola cases rose to eight after a new infection was recorded.
• Kenyan authorities are monitoring 130 contacts of the first case, with 128 in quarantine.
• Kenya's Health Ministry said no evidence of widespread community spread exists and the overall risk remains low.
• Kenya's Health Ministry confirmed a ninth Ebola case, a 24-year-old man in quarantine who is a close family member of the country's first patient.
• The first patient died at a Nairobi hospital on October 5 after traveling from the DRC via Uganda, the ministry said.
• All nine cases remain in one cluster, with eight patients stable and 134 of 135 contacts traced, officials said.