{"id":3153,"date":"2019-06-17T11:59:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T11:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","slug":"kenya-on-high-alert-after-suspected-ebola-case-in-kericho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/17\/kenya-on-high-alert-after-suspected-ebola-case-in-kericho\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya On High Alert After Suspected Ebola Case In Kericho"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em><strong><em>NATION TEAM<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health authorities in Kericho\nCounty are on a red alert over a suspected case of Ebola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was after a patient\nexhibited suspected symptoms of the hemorrhagic fever at Kericho County\nReferral Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>County officials on Monday said\nthe woman had travelled from Malaba, a town in Busia County on the border of\nKenya and Uganda, to see her spouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current outbreak in the\nDemocratic Republic of Congo is the worst on record after an epidemic that\nstruck mainly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone between 2014-2016, killing\nmore than 11,300 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has spread to Uganda, where\ntwo family members a woman and her five-year-old grandson died of Ebola last\nweek after travelling to the DRC to take care of a dying family member and\nattend the funeral\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Suspected-Ebola-case-in-Kericho\/1056-5160206-4bwt82z\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By NATION TEAM Health authorities in Kericho County are on a red alert over a suspected case of Ebola. This was after a patient exhibited suspected symptoms of the hemorrhagic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}