Nigeria, Oct. 18 -- Kenya has confirmed four new cases of the Ebola Bundibugyo virus, including three health workers who treated the country's first patient, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to seven.

The country's Ministry of Health announced the new cases on Saturday, Reuters said.

The ministry said the fourth patient is a male relative of the first confirmed patient, who died after arriving in Kenya from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on 3 October.

The relative had been in quarantine since 6 October before developing symptoms and testing positive for the virus.

The four new infections represent the first known cases of local transmission in Kenya since the outbreak was detected earlier this month.

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