India, Oct. 16 -- The World Health Organization has announced that a second person tested positive for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola virus in Kenya.
The patient, a 39-year-old man, is a relative of Kenya's first case - who died in hospital on October 5. He was among contacts who were placed in quarantine and developed symptoms on October 13.
Kenya's first Ebola patient and fatality was a local man who had been living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the record outbreak continues to spread in the east.
He arrived in Kenyan capital Nairobi via Uganda on October 3 and died in hospital two days later.
"I congratulate the Government for taking this important step to ensure that contacts are listed and quarantined," WHO Represe...