{"id":605,"date":"2026-10-06T20:05:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=605"},"modified":"2026-10-06T20:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:05:58","slug":"kenya-confirms-first-ebola-case-patient-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"KENYA CONFIRMS FIRST EBOLA CASE &#8211; PATIENT DIES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By.philes isaboke <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya has today, October 6th 2026, confirmed its first ever case of Bundibugyo Ebola virus disease, with the patient dying last night at Nairobi Hospital.<br><br>In a statement, Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale said the patient was a Kenyan citizen who had lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the past seven years.<br><br>The CS said the man fell ill about a month ago while in DRC and was treated at several hospitals before traveling back to Kenya. He traveled by road from DRC to Kampala in Uganda, then boarded Jambojet Flight 8523 arriving at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on October 3rd.<br><br>Upon arrival, a relative drove him directly from JKIA to Nairobi Hospital where he was quickly placed in an isolation facility.<br><br>He presented with fever, chills, intense fatigue, muscle pain, painful swallowing, sore throat and bleeding under the skin at injection sites. Doctors suspected viral hemorrhagic fever and collected samples which tested positive at both the National Virology Reference Laboratory and KEMRI Laboratory.<br><br>The patient died on Monday night October 5th despite treatment. Arrangements for safe and dignified burial are ongoing today.<br><br>The Ministry has listed 28 contacts including family members and health workers, and is pursuing 23 passengers and 4 crew members from the same flight. Quarantine arrangements are underway and border points are on high alert.<br><br>Kenyans are urged to maintain strict hygiene and report any symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791316892855.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791316892855.jpg 480w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791316892855-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By.philes isaboke Kenya has today, October 6th 2026, confirmed its first ever case of Bundibugyo Ebola virus disease, with the patient dying last night at Nairobi Hospital. In a statement, Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale said the patient was a Kenyan citizen who had lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the past seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}