
65-year-old woman dies after infection linked to first case in country
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Kenya recorded its first Ebola case on October 6, after a man from the DR Congo entered the country via Uganda.
A total of nine patients were known to be infected with Ebola in Kenya - now a second of them has died. According to the government, there is no evidence of further spread.
Nairobi. A second person has died of Ebola in Kenya. The 65-year-old woman died on Friday evening and was a family member of the first Ebola case in Kenya, the Kenyan Ministry of Health announced. She was already in quarantine when she developed symptoms in mid-October and was immediately treated medically.
This brought the number of deaths caused by the virus in the country to two. Seven other patients are currently being treated in two isolation facilities, it said. According to the ministry, all confirmed cases belong to a cluster of known contacts.
The first Ebola case in Kenya was announced at the beginning of October
There is so far no evidence of it spreading among the population. Kenya registered its first Ebola case on October 6th. The man fell ill in the Democratic Republic of Congo, traveled overland to neighboring Uganda and from there flew to Kenya, where he died in a hospital.
The current Ebola outbreak became known in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo in mid-May. According to the national health authority, more than 9,700 Ebola patients have been registered there since then. More than 4,700 of them have died from the disease. The African health authority Africa CDC speaks of the fastest growing Ebola outbreak in history.

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