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Number of Confirmed Ebola Cases in Kenya Reaches Seven

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The Kenyan Ministry of Health has announced four new Ebola cases, bringing the country's total confirmed infections to seven.

Four new cases of the Ebola Bundibugyo virus have been confirmed in Kenya, raising the total number of infections to seven.
Three of the newly confirmed individuals are healthcare workers—two men aged 29 and 35, and a 32-year-old woman—who treated the country's first Ebola patient.
The fourth new individual is a relative of the primary patient who died from the virus and had been in isolation since October 6.
The three healthcare workers began showing symptoms after treating the patient on October 3 and 4, and have been in isolation since October 9.
A previously announced third case involved a 65-year-old woman who had close contact with the initial patient and tested positive after entering isolation.
The fatality in Kenya is linked to the DRC outbreak, where the deceased Kenyan national had lived for seven years before traveling via Uganda to Nairobi.
The Kenyan Ministry of Health has identified 130 contacts of the deceased, placing 128 of them in isolation, and believes the virus has not spread into the general community.
The outbreak involves the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, for which no vaccine currently exists and no clinical trials have yet been conducted.