US raises Kenya travel advisory over Ebola and security concerns

The United States on Tuesday warned its citizens against travel to Kenya after the East African country reported an eighth Ebola case. In Kenya's first ever case of the virus, a citizen living in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where a major outbreak since May has killed more than 4,000 people, tested positive after returning home in early October. There have since been further cases, most in people with a close connection to the first victim, who died in the capital Nairobi on October 5th, Kenya reported the first Ebola case on October 6 in a businessman in his 40s who lived in the DRC, he traveled by car and plane via Uganda to Kenya where he died. The other seven cases in Kenya have been relatives of the first patient health workers who treated him and a member of the medical support staff, Kenya's health ministry has said they are in isolation and in stable condition.