Nigeria, Oct. 15 -- Kenya has confirmed a second case of Ebola, involving a 39-year-old man who developed symptoms while in quarantine, 10 days after the country's first confirmed patient died.

The development comes barely a week after PREMIUM TIMES reported Kenya's first imported case of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola virus, linked to the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

In a report by the BBC, the second patient was identified as a close relative of the first case and developed symptoms on Tuesday, 13 October, while already in quarantine under health authorities' monitoring.

The Kenyan Ministry of Health said the two cases were linked and there was no evidence of transmission in the wider community.

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