Original reporting: Ruth Nesoba. Original writing: George Obulutsa. Afrikons summary; external journalists retain their original affiliations.
Preliminary Ebola laboratory results for a patient in Kenya’s Wajir County were negative, the county governor said, according to Reuters.
The announcement followed Kenya’s report of a separate fatal case involving a citizen who had travelled from Democratic Republic of Congo.
The negative result concerns the tested sample and does not establish that the wider outbreak has ended. Readers should follow current public-health instructions from the responsible authorities.
A preliminary result is an important update, but it does not settle the status of the wider public-health situation.
Source archive dated 8 Oct 2026. This article is not a live update.
Context photograph: An eye examination at Kitale clinic, Kenya · Mwangiw · CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized/cropped; does not depict this reported event.
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