Kenya’s Ebola Patient Travelled Extensively in DRC and Uganda Before Flying Home to Die

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A Kenyan man who died of Ebola had travelled extensively through the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda before returning to Kenya, where he sought medical care from mid-September. He passed through multiple airport health screenings without being detected, including one two days before his death, raising concerns about cross-border outbreak detection.

The Kenyan man who died of Ebola this week travelled extensively through the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda and sought medical care from mid-September – passing through several airport health screenings without detection, even two days before he died. Dr Wessam Mankoula, head of health emergencies for Africa Centre for Disease Control and […]