Kenya: Ebola Tests Negative as Contact Tracing Continues
Officials said the Wajir patient tested negative for Ebola and positive for malaria as Kenya continues contact tracing after its first imported case.
- On Thursday, Wajir County Governor Ahmed Abdullahi announced that a 20-year-old man isolated in the region tested negative for Ebola Virus Disease, with laboratory results confirming malaria instead.
- Kenya's first confirmed imported case of Bundibugyo Ebola Virus Disease recently resulted in the death of a citizen who had lived in the DRC for seven years, prompting heightened surveillance across the country.
- The patient had traveled from the DRC through Uganda, arriving in Habaswein on September 20, where he worked as a "tan boy" on a cargo truck before presenting with fever and headache.
- Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale stated that Kenya is not experiencing a widespread Ebola outbreak, while the Ministry of Health has intensified surveillance and border screening following the confirmed case.
- Laikipia County health authorities also confirmed two separate suspected cases tested negative, while the ongoing Ebola epidemic in the eastern DRC has claimed at least 4,205 lives among more than 8,700 reported cases.
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