This one’s a bad one. If they can keep it out of the cities they’ll be doing well. BTT.
Kenya: Foreigners Being Screened for Ebola
The Nation (Nairobi)
21 September 2007
Nairobi
The Government has started screening foreigners from the Congo Basin for possible cases of ebola before they are allowed into the country.
Health assistant minister Wilfred Machage made the revelation as he stated that the two recent deaths in Kuresoi, Molo District were not caused by the ebola.
Dr Machage declared the country clean of the dreaded disease that has killed hundreds in the Congo Basin.
The assistant minister said initial tests by the medical team from Nakuru have shown that the deaths of the two women, one aged 22 years and another one 31, were caused by malaria.
This was in response to a point of clarification from Nominated MP Ruth Oniang’o (Kanu), who had wanted to know if the Government had put in place an anti-ebola strategy. Prof Oniang’o said that a number of cases of the disease had been recorded in parts of Tanzania, which borders the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Kisumu Town East MP Gor Sunguh (Narc) urged the Government to put in place early warning measures to detect strange diseases, which have ravaged some parts of the world.
Dr Machage was giving a ministerial statement requested on Tuesday by Kuresoi MP Moses Cheboi (Kanu) on the deaths that had sent panic among his constituents.
The assistant minister said that a 17-year-old school girl, who was also suffering from a disease with similar symptoms of fever, headache, difficulties in breathing and chest congestion, was treated for malaria and had recovered.
Dr Machage said that they had put medical teams in the Rift Valley under alert and surveillance was high for any other case.
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