In Kenya recorded the first death from Ebola

Kenya’s Ministry of Health has confirmed the country’s first Ebola-related death. The man died during treatment at a Nairobi hospital. AP reports.

According to Kenyan Health Minister Aden Duale, the Kenyan national recently returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the outbreak began six months ago. The man showed signs of fever, was hospitalized and died in hospital late on October 5. The minister said that 28 people were in contact with the patient. In addition, 23 passengers of the plane in which the man arrived in Kenya from the DRC are being tracked. All people in contact with him will be quarantined for 21 days.

Kenya is the fourth country to report Ebola since the outbreak began in mid-May. 20 cases were reported by Ugandan authorities and 1 by French authorities. More than 8,500 cases have been reported in the DRC and 4,114 people have died. The DRC authorities recognized the current epidemic as the deadliest and most widespread in the history of the country.

Alena Miklashevskaya