10/07/2026
🇰🇪 Health Update: Kenya has confirmed its first imported case of Ebola. The patient, a Kenyan national who had been living in the DRC, became ill there and received treatment at several hospitals.
On October 2, he traveled by road from Beni in the DRC to Kampala, Uganda. The following day, October 3, he flew from Entebbe to Nairobi on Jambojet flight 8523, arriving at 1:10 p.m. He was taken to Nairobi Hospital, isolated, and later confirmed to have Bundibugyo Ebola virus disease. He died on October 5.
Kenyan health authorities are tracing and monitoring people who may have been exposed. Officials emphasize that this is an imported case linked to the DRC, and Kenya does not currently have an Ebola outbreak.