Illustration: health workers wearing PPE at an Ebola isolation facility.
Kenya's Ministry of Health announced a second Ebola death on Friday night, October 23, 2026 — a 65-year-old woman, a close relative of the first patient, who died while in quarantine in Nairobi. A total of nine confirmed cases, with seven patients being treated in two isolation facilities, and no evidence of community transmission. The outbreak, which began in Congo, is now recorded in four African countries.
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Kenya's Ministry of Health announced a second Ebola death on Friday night, October 23, 2026: a 65-year-old woman who was a close relative of Kenya's first patient.
The woman was the third confirmed case in Kenya and died while undergoing quarantine at a Nairobi infectious disease unit, after showing symptoms on October 13.
The total number of confirmed Ebola cases in Kenya now stands at nine: two dead, seven patients still being treated in two isolation facilities; all cases come from a single cluster.
Kenyan authorities are tracking 135 contacts, all of whom have been quarantined; the Ministry of Health insists there is no evidence of community spread.
The outbreak began in the Democratic Republic of Congo and has now been recorded in four countries (Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria) — the widest geographic spread of an Ebola outbreak ever seen in Africa.
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