Kenya has confirmed a new Ebola case, bringing the \u200btotal number of infections to nine, the \u200chealth ministry said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The ministry said the latest case was a close family member \u200bof the first patient and had \u200balready been placed in quarantine.<\/p>\n
“All nine cases \u2060belong to one cluster, and as \u200bof today there is no evidence of transmission \u200boutside this group,” Director-General for Health Patrick Amoth said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Kenya has been on high \u200balert as a major Ebola outbreak centred \u200bin Democratic Republic of Congo has spread across borders \u200cin \u2060the region.<\/p>\n
Kenya’s first Ebola case was identified earlier this month in a man who travelled from DRC to Nairobi and \u200bdied at a \u200bNairobi \u2060hospital on October 5.<\/p>\n
Late on Monday, the US State Department advised Americans \u200bto reconsider travel to Kenya and \u200braised \u2060its travel advisory level for the country because of health risks.<\/p>\n
Amoth said 134 of \u2060135 \u200bcontacts had been traced \u200band placed in quarantine as of Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kenya has confirmed a new Ebola case, bringing the \u200btotal number of infections to nine, the \u200chealth ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry said the latest case was a close family member \u200bof the first patient and had \u200balready been placed in quarantine. “All nine cases \u2060belong to one cluster, and as \u200bof today there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,2362,2854],"tags":[3016,5539,1452,111],"class_list":["post-22330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-africa","category-featured","category-health","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo-drc","tag-ebola-case","tag-ebola-outbreak","tag-kenya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22331,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22330\/revisions\/22331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}