Kenya Ebola case exposes gaps in border screenings

By Ammu Kannampilly, Edwin Okoth and Clement Bonnerot NAIROBI/DAKAR, Oct 7 (Reuters) By the time Kenya s first Ebola patient was whisked to a hospital by relatives straight after landing at Nairobi airport, he was already exhibiting some classic symptoms fever, chills, muscle pain and bleeding beneath the skin. Two days later he was dead, leaving public health experts to piece together how he had managed to transit through three countries and evade layers of screening meant ​to stop the ongoing outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo from spreading to neighbouring states. Details about the man, a Kenyan national whose identity has not ‌been made public, remain scant, but Kenyan officials have confirmed he travelled overland from the city of Beni, in northeastern Congo, to Uganda s capital Kampala, where he stayed one night before flying to Kenya. The itinerary required traversing the border between Congo and Uganda, which has been closed since May. The man would also have had to