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Kenya’s Ministry of Health confirmed a second case of Ebola virus on Wednesday, a 39-year-old close relative of the country’s first patient.<\/p>\n
The man developed fever, fatigue and joint pains on Tuesday while already in quarantine under daily monitoring, the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday evening. He tested positive for the Bundibugyo strain and was isolated for supportive care.<\/p>\n
ALSO READ: Kenya confirms first Ebola virus case<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Officials said early detection improves his recovery chances…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Kenya’s Ministry of Health confirmed a second case of Ebola virus on Wednesday, a 39-year-old close relative of the country’s first patient. The man developed fever, fatigue and joint pains on Tuesday while already in quarantine under daily monitoring, the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday evening. He tested positive for the Bundibugyo strain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":247194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6683,6824,1111,4688,430,257,254,1112],"class_list":["post-247193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-confirms","tag-ebola","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-virus"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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