Kenya confirms more Bundibugyo Ebola cases

Kenya has reported four additional cases of Bundibugyo ebolavirus. Three of the new patients are health workers. One is a relative of the first patient. The new cases raise the total to seven.

All of the patients are quarantined. The strain named is Bundibugyo. The country is Kenya. The total after the additional cases is seven.

The four additional cases are the update. The split inside those four is three health workers and one relative. The relative is a relative of the first patient. Quarantine is the step reported for the patients.

The report does not give a new death figure with this update. It gives a case total of seven. It identifies the occupational and family links of the four new cases. It states that they are quarantined.

Health workers are three of the four new cases. That detail places the new infections partly among people caring for patients. The fourth new case is the relative. The virus name is Bundibugyo ebolavirus.

The recorded health update is the rise to seven cases. The new cases number four. The response named is quarantine. The place is Kenya.