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New cases in eastern DRC and a fatal imported infection in Kenya highlight the challenges of containing Ebola.

Tests have come back negative for a person suspected of having Ebola who was reportedly in quarantine at a hospital, following rumours circulating over the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, in Nairobi, authorities are racing to trace contacts of Kenya's first Ebola death, reported on Monday. Our correspondent Bastien Renouil tells us more.

This follows the death in Nairobi on Monday of a Kenyan man who had travelled home from DR Congo through Uganda.

Fresh details reveal how the 40-year-old businessman flew and crossed regional borders while seriously ill.

There had been fears the patient could be Kenya’s second case after a citizen died of ⁠the virus in Nairobi on Tuesday.

There had been fears the patient could be Kenya’s second case after a citizen died of ⁠the virus in Nairobi on Tuesday.

A Kenyan national who had been living in Congo before returning to Nairobi has become Kenya’s first confirmed Ebola case and the country’s first fatality from the disease in the rapidly evolving outbreak. The Kenya Red Cross is supporting the government’s efforts to prevent a public health crisis. FRANCE 24’s Bastien Renouil met with Paul Olala, the NGO’s head of health security and emergencies.

The fight against Ebola poses a challenge in the Central African Republic. In Zemio, in the country’s south-east, proximity to the Democratic Republic of Congo has raised fears that the virus could spread across the border. But health screening remains difficult. The repeated absence of health workers at checkpoints is hampering surveillance, while residents continue to cross the border through unofficial crossing points, as FRANCE 24's team on the ground reports.

Preliminary lab results ease fears of a second case in Kenya, after the country reported its first-ever case this week.

Somalia has posted health teams at Mogadishu airport to check passengers from African countries after Kenya confirmed a fatal Ebola case. The post Somalia Screens Flyers for Ebola After 1 Death in Kenya appeared first on The Rio Times.

Kenya’s Health Ministry has heightened surveillance at border entry points and created an Ebola hotline for citizens to report symptoms related to Ebola

According to the WHO, the Kenyan patient first got sick in the DRC, where the patient had been living, and was treated there.

Kenya’s government has intensified Ebola preparedness efforts amid growing concern over lapses in border screening.

The patient passed through multiple cities in DR Congo, drove to Uganda and eventually flew to Kenya.

It says the north-eastern region now accounts for nearly 40 per cent of all newly confirmed incidents nationwide.

The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union on Tuesday called on the government to protect health workers, after the country reported its first case of Ebola.

Health authorities in Kenya confirmed an Ebola infection in a traveler who recently arrived from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The person fell ill in Congo a month ago and traveled by road to Uganda. The patient arrived by plane in Nairobi on Oct. 3 and died Monday. This marks Kenya's first imported case linked to the outbreak in central Africa. Bloomberg's Janice Kew reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

In tonight's edition, Kenya records its first Ebola death after a man travelled from the DRC via Uganda. Also, Comoros is tightening the rules on who can do business. In South Africa, concerns are growing that xenophobia and hostility toward foreign nationals could be driving African tourists away.

More than 4,000 people have died in the worst outbreak in the DR Congo's history, with confirmed cases surpassing 8,300.

Kenya on Tuesday reported its first-ever Ebola death after a Kenyan national who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) died after returning to the country. Kenya is the fourth country to record an Ebola case in the current outbreak, which was declared in eastern DR Congo in mid-May.

Kenya has reported its first-ever Ebola death, the health minister announced on Tuesday, after a Kenyan man who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo died after returning to the country. The man, who was not named, fell ill about a month ago and had been treated in the DR Congo, Health Minister Aden Duale told reporters, before travelling overland to the Ugandan capital, Kampala, and then flying to Nairobi on October 3. He added that he was screened and confirmed positive for the...

The patient has been living in DR Congo for the past seven years.

20 weeks into the Ebola virus outbreak, health workers have managed to tamp down some of the early hotspot but the virus is still spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo, putting experts under mounting pressure. Jennifer Zabasajja, Bloomberg’s Chief Africa correspondent reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

Some 250 people, who have all been exposed to the rare Bundibugyo virus, are taking part in the trial could stop them from contracting Ebola.

Burning of a Ebola-hit transit camp sends 19,000 fleeing, illustrating the difficulties of controlling epidemic.

In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a mobile lab has been operating for two weeks, a welcome relief to staff at the nearby Ebola treatment centre who said that getting a test result used to take 72 hours.

Karondwa was buried in his native Lubero, as calls grow for an investigation into his death and for greater trust between communities and health workers fighting the Ebola outbreak.

Routine healthcare has been severely disrupted in communities hit hardest by Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo, where fear of infection and pressure on hospitals are stymieing pediatric immunizations and discouraging patients from seeking maternity and other basic care.

Fatalities near 4,000 across the DRC as health workers battle community anger and a vaccine-resistant strain.

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has surpassed 8,000, while 3,901 people have died in the current outbreak, according to government data released on Monday.