Ebola epidemic spreads in Africa, Kenya reports second death

(Central News Agency, Nairobi, Comprehensive Foreign Reports on the 24th) Kenya’s Ministry of Health said yesterday evening that the country has recorded its second death from the Ebola virus. The 65-year-old woman developed symptoms during isolation and was a close relative of the first case of death.

Reuters reported that the Ebola epidemic initially broke out in the Democratic Republic of Congo and spread to African countries such as Uganda, Kenya, and Nigeria.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is the most severely affected country, with nearly 10,000 confirmed cases and more than 4,600 deaths.

Kenya confirmed its first Ebola case earlier this month. The patient was a man who traveled from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. The man died in a hospital in Nairobi on October 5.

Since then, Kenyan authorities have traced 135 contacts and quarantined them all, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to nine.