Kenya’s Director-General for Health, Patrick Amoth, confirmed an eighth case in the country’s disease outbreak on Sunday, after one of 38 people tested positive.
“Today, we tested 38 persons; one tested positive. Not a direct healthcare worker, but a patient attendant, a 49-year-old gentleman who developed symptoms of fever or high temperature, headache and muscle pain,” Amoth said in Nairobi.
Amoth reported that all seven previously confirmed patients had received monoclonal antibody treatment and were showing encouraging signs of recovery.
“Those who have received the monoclonal antibodies, I’m glad to say, are responding very, very well. The old mama is doing very well,” he added.
A 65-year-old patient was eating independently after her vomiting and diarrhoea stopped, while three staff members at the Nairobi Hospital isolation centre remained stable.
Kenya has also received additional medication from Rwanda, which health authorities plan to use in the outbreak response.
The outbreak was first detected in Kenya earlier this month after an infected traveller arriving from DR Congo via Uganda died in Nairobi on October 5.
Health authorities have identified 130 contacts, with 128 traced and quarantined.
Source: Viory
