Kenya discharges last Ebola patient in key milestone to being declared free of the virus

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Kenya has discharged its last Ebola patient - the seventh to recover from the virus - marking a major milestone in efforts to contain the disease in the East African nation, which now begins a 42-day countdown to officially being declared Ebola-free. It had confirmed its first ever case of Ebola early in October when a Kenyan businessman died within days of arriving in the capital, Nairobi. He had contracted the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where more than 5,000 people have died in an ongoing outbreak that began in May. His mother also subsequently died. Kenya's health minister said 135 identified contacts of the infected patients had also completed their 21 days in isolation.