Kenya has recorded a second Ebola death, the Health Ministry said on Friday.
Officials said the 65-year-old woman had developed symptoms during quarantine and was a close relative of a Kenyan man who died of Ebola earlier this month.
"Sadly, she succumbed to the disease early this evening," the ministry said.
Seven people continue to receive treatment for the illness in Kenya.
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The woman began showing symptoms 10 days ago. She began receiving supportive care at an infectious disease unit in the capital, Nairobi.
Medical personnel "did everything possible to save her life," the ministry said, adding that it had notified her family and would arrange a safe and dignified burial in consultation with relatives.
Kenya's first Ebola case was announced on October 6. A 40-year-old Kenyan man living in Congo travelled to Kenya via Uganda, arriving on October 3.
He tested positive for the disease on October 5 and died on the same day.
Of some 135 who were identified as contacts with the patient, 118 were placed in quarantine, with eight testing positive. They included four health workers and four close family members.
The latest death is believed to have been among those quarantined family members. The ministry said she developed symptoms on October 13.
The remaining seven cases are all within "one cluster, with no evidence of community spread", the ministry added.
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Meanwhile, genomic tests announced by Nigeria's Health Minister have revealed that the Ebola virus found in Kenya's patient zero resembles that found in Nigeria's first case, which was announced earlier this week.
Nigeria's first case is the wife of a staff member at Switzerland's embassy in Abuja. She had returned from Uganda on October 3.
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On Friday, the Swiss Foreign Ministry denied Ugandan government reports saying the patient had visited the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicenter of the current outbreak.
African health authorities are trying to trace the source of the infection. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention had suggested she may have come into contact at the airport with Kenya's first patient, who also flew from Uganda on the same day.
"There is no evidence of travel of that index case in Kenya that links it to Nigeria, but the viruses are appearing to be related," Nigerian Health Minister Muhammad Ali Pate said, adding in a post on X that the case "is highly similar to that from Kenya."
The current outbreak flared in the DRC in May, and has since spread to Uganda, Kenya and Nigeria.
The deadly Bundibugyo species has no approved vaccine or specific treatment.
To date, infections have surpassed 9,700 confirmed cases, including 4,690 deaths, as per World Health Organization figures as of October 20.
Edited by: Rana Taha
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