{"id":532,"date":"2026-10-06T09:45:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/?p=532"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:45:30","slug":"ebola-in-kenya-govt-races-to-find-28-people-who-flew-with-first-patient-from-kampala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Ebola in Kenya: Gov&#8217;t races to find 28 people who flew with first patient from Kampala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"945\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1db553e6-ff71-4a5b-968c-de0b99f26eac_AFP__20260714__C24F83P__v3__MidRes__TopshotDrcHealthEbola-og_image.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1db553e6-ff71-4a5b-968c-de0b99f26eac_AFP__20260714__C24F83P__v3__MidRes__TopshotDrcHealthEbola-og_image.webp 945w, https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1db553e6-ff71-4a5b-968c-de0b99f26eac_AFP__20260714__C24F83P__v3__MidRes__TopshotDrcHealthEbola-og_image-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1db553e6-ff71-4a5b-968c-de0b99f26eac_AFP__20260714__C24F83P__v3__MidRes__TopshotDrcHealthEbola-og_image-768x512.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ministry of Health (MOH) has launched an extensive contact tracing exercise after Kenya confirmed its first case of Ebola Virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0According to Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale, 28 contacts have so far been identified, including family members of the deceased victim who died at the Nairobi Hospital on Monday night, as well as attending healthcare workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ministry is also pursuing an additional 23 passengers and 4 crew members who were on the same flight as the deceased, flying from Kampala to Nairobi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health (MOH) has launched an extensive contact tracing exercise after Kenya confirmed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}