The change since this paper’s 10 August coverage of Congo’s Ebola outbreak is Kenya’s Health Ministry report of its country’s second Ebola death on Friday: a 65-year-old woman, a close relative of the first patient, died after developing symptoms while in quarantine [E1][E4]. The woman had begun showing symptoms 10 days earlier and was receiving supportive care at an infectious-disease unit in Nairobi [E2].
Authorities had identified 135 contacts of the first patient and placed 118 in quarantine [E3]. Seven people continued to receive treatment for the illness in Kenya [E5].
Nigeria’s health minister said genomic tests found that the virus in Kenya’s index patient resembled that in Nigeria’s first case [E6].
WHO said eight additional Kenyan cases were known contacts of the first imported case [E7]. It said all new cases had been in quarantine when symptoms began and were in isolation and receiving care at two designated facilities [E8]. WHO said there was no evidence of transmission outside the cluster [E9].
An ECDC update published on 23 October at 16:45 recorded nine confirmed Kenyan cases, including one death, as of 22 October, all linked to the first case [E10][E11]. ECDC assessed the likelihood of infection for people from the EU/EEA living in or travelling to affected areas as low, based on the information then available [E12].