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  "id": 13082829,
  "title": "How did Ebola pass Kenya’s screening systems despite months of preparedness?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/how-did-ebola-pass-kenyas-screening-systems-despite-months-of",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-09T09:21:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
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    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/insights/how-did-ebola-pass-kenyas-screening-systems-despite-months-of-preparedness"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Kenya’s first confirmed imported Ebola case has raised difficult questions about the country’s border screening systems after a Kenyan citizen who fell ill in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) travelled through Uganda to Nairobi, where he later died. The case has put the government’s public health preparedness under scrutiny, particularly because authorities say Kenya […]",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/cs-miano-assures-tourists-kenya-is-safe-says-ebola-case-is-isolated",
        "published": "2026-10-08T07:29:08.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "AllAfrica Health",
        "title": "Kenya: CS Miano Assures Tourists Kenya Is Safe, Says Ebola Case Is Isolated",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/kenya-cs-miano-assures-tourists-kenya-is-safe-says-ebola-case-is",
        "published": "2026-10-08T08:02:37.000Z"
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        "outlet": "KBC",
        "title": "China extends $2 million support to Kenya for Ebola preparedness, drought relief",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/china-extends-2-million-support-to-kenya-for-ebola-preparedness",
        "published": "2026-10-08T14:07:03.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "People Daily Kenya",
        "title": "Kenya races to trace all contacts after first Ebola death, WHO official says",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/kenya-races-to-trace-all-contacts-after-first-ebola-death-who",
        "published": "2026-10-08T16:14:13.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Business Daily Africa",
        "title": "China gives Kenya Sh259m for Ebola, drought preparedness",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/china-gives-kenya-sh259m-for-ebola-drought-preparedness",
        "published": "2026-10-08T16:30:00.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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