Short answer: Yes. On Tuesday, October 6, 2026, Kenya’s Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale confirmed the country’s first Ebola case, and the patient has died. He was a 40-year-old Kenyan man who had lived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for seven years; he traveled by road from the DRC to Kampala, Uganda, then flew to Nairobi on October 3, was isolated at Nairobi Hospital, and died on the evening of October 5.
His sample tested positive for Bundibugyo virus, the rare Ebola species behind the current DRC outbreak, for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment. Kenyan officials said 28 contacts had been identified and they were tracing 23 more passengers and four crew members from his flight. As of October 3, the Congo Ministry of Health reported 8,854 confirmed cases and 4,114 deaths in its outbreak.
Source: ABC News: Kenya records 1st Ebola death after man travels between several countries
Image: Colorized transmission electron micrograph of an Ebola virus particle. CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.