# Kenya reports its first Ebola death

https://mins.news/en/item/87836

- DW, 2026-10-06 11:14 UTC
- Health
- Original: https://www.dw.com/en/kenya-reports-first-ever-ebola-death/a-79563120?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

> Kenyan authorities have announced the country’s first Ebola death. The patient, a Kenyan citizen who had lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo, traveled through Uganda before reaching Nairobi and testing positive. Twenty-eight contacts, along with passengers and crew from the flight, are being quarantined or traced.

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