NairobiAn Ebola patient landed with 23 passengers and 4 crew.
The man fell ill in Congo, crossed Uganda overland and flew to Nairobi on 3 October.
The Bundibugyo strain, which has no vaccine, killed 4,082 of 8,463 Congolese cases by 2 October, the World Health Organization said.
Kenya’s Health Minister Aden Duale says none of the 28 listed contacts has tested positive.
Duale says authorities are tracing the 27 others on the flight, with quarantine prepared for those at risk.
How each outlet framed it
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- Bloomberg Business leans critical
- Yahoo News
- contextualizes Kenya's first case within DRC's 17th outbreak and Uganda's prior cases; documents symptoms and contact tracing
- Dawn
- documents Kenyan public reaction to earlier government Ebola facility plans, notes Bundibugyo strain's containment resistance
- South China Morning Post
Sources: Bloomberg Business, Yahoo News, Dawn, South China Morning Post