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Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by Emmyloyalty: 7:37pm On Jun 17, 2019
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 haemorrhagic fever at Kericho County Referral Hospital.



County officials on Monday said the woman had travelled from Malaba, a town in Busia County on the border of Kenya and Uganda, to see her spouse.



She was initially admitted at Siloam Hospital before being transferred to Kericho County Referral Hospital.



"A female patient presented at our facility today with complaints of headache, hotness of the body, puffy face, some diarrhoea, and nausea of acute onset,” said Ms Margaret Okirio, the administrator at Siloam Hospital.

“On further interrogation, she admitted to having travelled from Malaba where she alleges to reside to see her husband who works in Kericho.”



Ms Okirio said they transferred the patient, acting on Health ministry’s alert on Ebola that requires all medical facilities in Kenya and the public to report any medical cases with symptoms of the fever.



"This patient needed close and further elaborate investigations while under appropriate isolation requirements till diagnosed for targeted treatment to be given,” she said. "The hospital clinical team also went ahead to consult and seek further guidance from the county surveillance team, who advised to have the patient transferred to the county referral hospital for further management while on isolation. Once the appropriate preparations had been done.”



The hitherto unidentified patient was admitted to Kericho County Referral Hospital on Sunday and was immediately put in isolation.



“The county disease surveillance team immediately took over the matter and took all the necessary precautions to ensure that there was minimal contact between the patient and other persons at the hospital including the staff and the other hospital users,” the county government said in a statement.

“The county Department of Health Services is monitoring this potential case very closely and is working with the National Government to ensure that all essential procedures are followed to protect public health and safety.”



Blood samples from the patient were sent to the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) in Nairobi for further analysis.



“The preliminary test results are expected to be ready within the next 12 to 24 hours,” the statement read in part. Kindly note that no visits will be allowed into the isolation room.”



The current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the worst on record after an epidemic that struck mainly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone between 2014-2016, killing more than 11,300 people.



It has spread to Uganda, where two family members a woman and her five-year-old grandson died of Ebola last week after travelling to the DRC to take care of a dying family member and attend the funeral.



The boy's brother, aged three, is also infected, and several family members are in isolation.



On Friday, the World Health Organisation said the outbreak does not yet warrant being declared a "public health emergency of international concern", meaning it would require a "coordinated international response"

Read more: https://www.loyaltyupdates.com.ng/2019/06/kenya-on-red-alert-as-women-with-ebola.html

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Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by Emmyloyalty: 7:38pm On Jun 17, 2019
Lalasticlala ooo..
Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by etibaba(m): 10:06pm On Jun 17, 2019
This case should be handled with seriousness. If there is one thing Nigeria ever got right, its the way we fought the Ebola case when it started.

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Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by GoldChest(m): 10:06pm On Jun 17, 2019
Ebola again kwa

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Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by Goldenheart(m): 10:07pm On Jun 17, 2019
cry
Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by NurseJay: 10:07pm On Jun 17, 2019
Hmmmm make e kuku remain dia oh! cry
I canor coman be baffin salt water again!

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Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by Lamasta(m): 10:07pm On Jun 17, 2019
Ebola again? Thought it has been killed cool
Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by Homeboiy: 10:07pm On Jun 17, 2019
Ban all Kenyans from entering Nigeria till further notice

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Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by emapraiz(m): 10:07pm On Jun 17, 2019
MAKE E NO REACH NAIJA OH

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Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by GentleMoney: 10:08pm On Jun 17, 2019
shocked
Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by tfash96(m): 10:09pm On Jun 17, 2019
Abeg we no wan hear that name again o we never conquer Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen pls we no wan another killer wey we don conquer before again o
Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by RichDad1(m): 10:09pm On Jun 17, 2019
Make nobody from Kenya enter Naija o.
Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by emeijeh(m): 10:09pm On Jun 17, 2019
Ebola again?!

I hope someone will not spread a water + salt sugar rumour in Kenya. grin
Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by naijaboy756: 10:10pm On Jun 17, 2019
Ebola

Abeg ooo sad

Hope say these useless and cursed betnaija and sex position scammers go allow this thread

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Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by Generalyemi(m): 10:10pm On Jun 17, 2019
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Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by omoadeleye(m): 10:11pm On Jun 17, 2019
etibaba:
This case should be handled with seriousness. If there is one thing Nigeria ever got right, its the way we fought the Ebola case when it started.


And I pray something like that never happen to Nigeria now, cause this current government rae ready to ruin us

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Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by emeijeh(m): 10:11pm On Jun 17, 2019
Guy calm down na....abi you bet say we go win?!

Insectkiller:
Let my dog fvck the referee that officiate Nig vs France (women) match..

She is a racist..and they always want the blacks to be their slaves (subject)..

Pls leave their games for them, let them be playing it all alone...

Fvck ya all... Fvck the FIFA women tournament! Fvck you..Fvck you all

FIFA means Football Is not For Africa
Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by Saltoflife: 10:12pm On Jun 17, 2019
Ah that serious o... not again.

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Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by Generalyemi(m): 10:12pm On Jun 17, 2019
etibaba:
This case should be handled with seriousness. If there is one thing Nigeria ever got right, its the way we fought the Ebola case when it started.

during Good luck Jonathan time,,this cow mongers can't do shit to Ebola

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Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by oglalasioux(m): 10:13pm On Jun 17, 2019
Insectkiller:
Let my dog fvck the referee that officiate Nig vs France (women) match..

She is a racist..and they always want the blacks to be their slaves (subject)..

Pls leave their games for them, let them be playing it all alone...

Fvck ya all... Fvck the FIFA women tournament! Fvck you..Fvck you all

FIFA means Football Is not For Africa

The thread is about an ebola case. Just trying to bring you back to planet earth.

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Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by sinaj(f): 10:14pm On Jun 17, 2019
God shouldnt let this near Nigeria please, not in this Buhari's regime

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Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by PhenomenalMorgan(m): 10:15pm On Jun 17, 2019
God did a wonderful thing for Nigeria the last time this Ebola outbreak occurred, we believe this time it can only Get better!!
Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by hassdee: 10:16pm On Jun 17, 2019
May Allah protect us in Africa and the whole world entirely

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Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by jamezman(m): 10:21pm On Jun 17, 2019
etibaba:
This case should be handled with seriousness. If there is one thing Nigeria ever got right, its the way we fought the Ebola case when it started.

Never under this crappy government...

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Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by clive2u(m): 10:23pm On Jun 17, 2019
Insectkiller:
Let my dog fvck the referee that officiate Nig vs France (women) match..

She is a racist..and they always want the blacks to be their slaves (subject)..

Pls leave their games for them, let them be playing it all alone...

Fvck ya all... Fvck the FIFA women tournament! Fvck you..Fvck you all

FIFA means Football Is not For Africa
FINFA? u are a racist to think that or u knw nothing abt football
Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by kelvinUchiha(m): 10:24pm On Jun 17, 2019
Africa don too relax. I'm happy about this news. Other continents don pass us go far. Make Eboka do them make them wake up. Afterall europe had black plague.

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Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by Alejobs: 10:26pm On Jun 17, 2019
Can we pray our way to security as a nation or we need serous overhaul of our security architecture?
Re: Kenya On Red Alert As A Woman With Ebola Symptoms Is Put In Isolation by cheerishMe: 10:27pm On Jun 17, 2019
etibaba:
This case should be handled with seriousness. If there is one thing Nigeria ever got right, its the way we fought the Ebola case when it started.
And we thank God that it happens then when the Government of that time has human sympathy and does not want to blame anyone,,unlike wat we have now Nigeria could have been a dead zone

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