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Kenya has reported its first-ever Ebola death, the health minister announced Tuesday, after a Kenyan man who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo died after returning to the country.

In mid-May, the DRC declared its 17th outbreak of Ebola, an extremely deadly disease that has killed more than 15,000 people in Africa over the past 50 years.

While Kenya had never previously reported a case, neighboring Uganda recorded 20 Ebola cases—almost all among people who had traveled from the DRC—and two deaths before being declared Ebola-free in August.

The Kenyan citizen, who has not been named, fell ill around a month ago and had been treated in the DRC, Health Minister Aden Duale told reporters, before traveling overland to the Ugandan capital, Kampala, and then flying to Nairobi on Oct. 3.

Duale said the man was suffering "fever, chills, intense fatigue, weakness, muscle pain, painful swallowing, sore throat and bleeding under the skin at the injection sites".

He said the man was subsequently screened and tested positive for the virus, saying that he "regrettably passed on last night at around 11:30" p.m. (8:30 p.m. GMT).

Duale said that they had listed 28 contacts of the deceased, including family members and health care workers, but that so far "only one test has turned positive and is the one that we have just discussed."

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