'Reconsider travel': US raises warning level for Kenya over surging Ebola risk

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Travellers walk at the Kenya immigration services to access port health services at the Busia One Stop Border Post, crossing-point between Kenya and Uganda, after a man who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo travelled and died of a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo species at the Nairobi Hospital, in Busia, Kenya October 8, 2026. 

Photo credit: Reuters

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