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Symbolic image: Kenya's Ebola cases rise to seven as health workers are infected

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Kenya's Ebola cases rise to seven as health workers are infected

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Kenya confirmed four new Ebola cases on Saturday, three of them health workers, bringing its total to seven. Bloomberg reports that Africa CDC says over $700 million in Ebola funds is unaccounted for.

In a statement on Saturday, 17 October, Kenya's Health Ministry said the four new patients tested positive for the Bundibugyo strain. Three had treated the country's first patient, who travelled from Congo via Uganda to Nairobi and died. The fourth is a relative who had been in quarantine since 6 October, according to Al Jazeera. TASS, citing Reuters, reports that all four were in quarantine when symptoms appeared and that the two earlier patients are stable. Al Jazeera calls these the first known infections passed on inside Kenya.

Contacts traced, no community spread

Of the first patient's 130 contacts, 128 (98.5 percent) are quarantined, above the 85 percent benchmark for breaking transmission, Al Jazeera reports. The ministry sees no evidence of community spread and has imposed no limits on travel, trade or gatherings, according to TASS. Al Jazeera adds that some observers question how the index patient passed entry screening.

Congo outbreak and missing funds

Congo's health agency counts 9,348 confirmed cases and 4,510 deaths since mid-May, Handelsblatt reports; Al Jazeera cites more than 9,000 cases and 4,300 deaths. Africa CDC calls it the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history, and no vaccine exists yet for the Bundibugyo strain.