In Kenya recorded the first case of Ebola virus infection

Kenya’s Ministry of Health has confirmed the country’s first case of Ebola. It's from sb.by.

According to RIA Novosti, this information was given by the Kenyan news portal with reference to the words of the Minister of Health of the country Aden Duale.

“The Ministry of Health is informing the public that it has confirmed the first imported case of the bundibugio strain of Ebola virus,” he said.

He said the patient had lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the past seven years and had developed symptoms about a month earlier. It is noted that the patient was treated in several hospitals, and then by land transport went through Uganda to Kenya.

On October 3, the patient arrived in Nairobi on a plane carrying 23 passengers. After passing the standard sanitary and passport control, relatives and friends took him by car to one of the hospitals. He was immediately placed in a separate room.

The Ministry of health of the DR Congo reported the peak of the Ebola outbreak