From DRC to Kampala and Nairobi: Did Patient Zero escape from the treatment centre?
Port health officials from Kenya's Ministry of Health wait for passengers at the arrival screening point at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi on October 7, 2026. [AFP]
Kenya’s first confirmed Ebola patient may have walked out of a treatment facility in the Democratic Republic of Congo before travelling through Ituri, crossing into Uganda and eventually flying to Nairobi.
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