Kenya confirms second Ebola case
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NAIROBI, Kenya, October 14 – Kenya has confirmed a second case of Ebola (Bundibugyo virus disease), involving a 39-year-old man who is a close family member of the first patient who died, the Ministry of Health has announced.
The man was already in quarantine under daily monitoring when he developed fever, fatigue and joint pains on October 13.
Health officials isolated him immediately and collected samples that tested positive at both the National Virology Reference Laboratory and the KEMRI-CDC laboratory.
