People in Kenya's capital Nairobi express fear after Kenya reports its first Ebola death. health officials Kenya’s first-ever death from the disease. "When I heard yesterday that they were announcing that Ebola has entered Kenya, I got so scared because I don’t know how our government will deal with it," says Edwin Orwa, who works in security. The victim was a Kenyan citizen who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which declared its 17th Ebola outbreak in May. "As a country we don’t have an outbreak," says Mary Muthoni, Kenya’s Principal Secretary for Public Health and Professional Standards, whilst visiting Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi alongside officials from the WHO and Africa CDC to inspect health screening measures.