{"id":620,"date":"2026-10-07T20:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=620"},"modified":"2026-10-07T20:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:52:16","slug":"kenya-on-high-alert-after-first-ebola-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"KENYA ON HIGH ALERT AFTER FIRST EBOLA DEATH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by.philes isaboke <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG-20261007-WA8647-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG-20261007-WA8647-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG-20261007-WA8647-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG-20261007-WA8647-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG-20261007-WA8647-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG-20261007-WA8647.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya remains on high alert a day after confirming its first imported case of Bundibugyo Ebola virus disease.<br><br>Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale yesterday confirmed the patient, a Kenyan citizen who had lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo for seven years, died at Nairobi Hospital on Monday night October 5th.<br><br>According to the Ministry, the man fell ill about a month ago in DRC and was treated at several hospitals before traveling by road to Kampala, Uganda, then boarding Jambojet Flight 8523 arriving at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on October 3rd.<br><br>Upon landing, a relative drove him directly to Nairobi Hospital where he was isolated. Samples tested positive at both the National Virology Reference Laboratory and the Kenya Medical Research Institute.<br><br>The deceased was buried yesterday October 6th under safe and dignified burial protocol. Authorities have listed 28 contacts including family and health workers and are tracing 23 passengers and 4 crew from the same flight. Eight family members and 21 health workers are under 21-day quarantine.<br><br>President William Ruto has ordered the National Security Council Committee to convene to assess the threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by.philes isaboke Kenya remains on high alert a day after confirming its first imported case of Bundibugyo Ebola virus disease. Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale yesterday confirmed the patient, a Kenyan citizen who had lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo for seven years, died at Nairobi Hospital on Monday night October 5th. According to [&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-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","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=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}