3 Suspected Ebola Cases Test Negative, Duale Puts 22 Counties on High-Risk Alert
Duale said four more people were tested and all tests came back negative, but Kenya will not institute quarantine measures despite the cross-border threats...
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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.
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Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale announced that Kenya has no confirmed cases of the Ebola virus following fears of an outbreak, with all suspected individuals testing negative. However, Duale put 22 counties on high-risk alert. 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. In the DRC, an angry crowd set fire to tents used as isolation wards at a hospital in eastern DRC after being prevented from taking the body of a suspected Ebola victim for burial.
