The patient, a 39-year-old man, is a relative of Kenya’s first case – related to the ongoing deadly outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – who died in hospital on 5 October. He was among contacts who were placed in quarantine and developed symptoms on 13 October.
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