By Stellah Bosire
What you need to know:
Ebola spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids such as blood, saliva and sweat from an infected individual.
The confirmation of Ebola cases in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo should concern Kenya deeply.
A patient walked into a health facility in Uganda complaining of fever, headache, vomiting, diarrhoea and body weakness. To the clinician at the triage desk, the symptoms were painfully familiar; malaria, typhoid, severe gastroenteritis, perhaps even a resistant bacterial infection. The patient was treated and discharged. Within days, however, the illness worsened violently. Family members who cared for the patient began developing similar symptoms. A nurse who inserted an IV line fell ill. Another patient who shared a waiting bay developed a fever.
