WHO urges vigilance after Kenya confirms second Ebola case

The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to support Kenya’s efforts to contain Ebola after a second person tested positive for the Bundibugyo virus, the UN agency’s representative in the country said on Thursday. The patient, a 39-year-old man, is a relative of Kenya’s first case – related to the ongoing deadly outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – who died in hospital on 5 October. He was among contacts who were placed in quarantine and developed symptoms on 13 October. ‘We all have a role to play’“I congratulate the Government for taking this important step to ensure that contacts are listed and quarantined,” WHO Representative Dr. Neema Rusibamayila Kimambo told UN News in Nairobi, a day after the Ministry of Health confirmed the new case. “But to defeat this disease, it's not about the Government, it is not about partners It is about everybody,” she insisted. “We all have a role to play and if each one of us plays our part, then we should be able to contain the disease and stop community spread.” Casting a wide netKenya’s first Ebola patient and fatality was a local man who had been living in the DRC, where the record outbreak continues to spread in the ...