Kenya discharges last Ebola patient

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Kenya has discharged its last remaining Ebola patient from hospital, with the country expected to be declared free of the disease on December 23 if no new cases emerge. Read More:…

Kenya has discharged its last remaining Ebola patient from hospital, with the country expected to be declared free of the disease on December 23 if no new cases emerge.

Kenyan Health Minister, Aden Duale, announced the development on Wednesday, saying “the patient had completed treatment at a Nairobi hospital.” National Hospital Kenya |DW/AP

According to a report by DW News on Wednesday, “the final patient had 11 contacts who would also undergo a 21-day quarantine period as health authorities continue efforts to contain the outbreak.”

The Kenyan Ministry of Health said “all 135 contacts linked to the index case had been traced and monitored through strengthened surveillance and contact-tracing measures.”

It added that all nine confirmed cases were linked to a single transmission cluster, with no community transmission recorded.

The country’s first case was reported on October 6, involving a Kenyan man who had recently returned from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Of the nine confirmed cases, “seven patients recovered while two died.”

Meanwhile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to battle its deadliest Ebola outbreak, with 11,000 cases and 5,387 deaths reported as of Wednesday.

The outbreak, which began in May, has become the country’s deadliest recorded episode of the disease.

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