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Kenya Detects First Case of Ebola 

HeadlineOct 06, 2026

Kenya has detected its first-ever case of Ebola. The patient is a Kenyan citizen who has been living in the Democratic Republic ​of the Congo and arrived in Nairobi ​over the weekend. The patient has since died. His death comes as the DRC is combating its largest-ever outbreak of Ebola, recording more than 8,000 cases and over 4,000 deaths. Later in the broadcast, we’ll speak with a Congolese journalist in the city of Bunia and Dr. Craig Spencer at Brown University, who survived an Ebola infection in 2014. 

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