Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has announced that Kenya has no confirmed cases of the Ebola virus following fears of an outbreak. All suspected individuals have tested negative.

• Three individuals with recent travel history from the Democratic Republic of Congo tested negative for Ebola.
• Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale provided the update in a national address on Friday, May 22.
• 22 counties have been placed on high-risk alert as a precautionary measure.

An angry crowd set fire to tents used as isolation wards at a hospital in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after being prevented from taking the body of a suspected Ebola victim for burial.

• 177 people are thought to have died from Ebola in DR Congo, out of 750 suspected cases.
• Medical workers at Rwampara General Hospital were placed under military protection.
• The outbreak is caused by a rare species of Ebola known as Bundibugyo, for which there is no vaccine.

UK scientists at Oxford University are rapidly developing an experimental Ebola vaccine, potentially ready for clinical trials in two to three months, to combat the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• The outbreak has caused 750 suspected cases and 177 deaths.
• The vaccine utilizes the same adaptable ChAdOx1 technology previously used for Covid-19.
• This new vaccine targets the rare Bundibugyo species of Ebola, for which no proven vaccine currently exists, though the World Health Organization (WHO) has noted a lack of animal data supporting its effectiveness yet.