Kenya has requested 10,000 Ebola vaccine doses, with health workers first, The Star reported on 23 October 2026. The country has nine confirmed Bundibugyo cases, no vaccine is approved for the strain, and WHO advisers have backed a Phase III ring-vaccination trial of Ervebo.
The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and Amsterdam UMC have launched a trial comparing azithromycin and ciprofloxacin with a placebo in about 2,800 malnourished children with diarrhoea in Kenya and Tanzania, KEMRI said on 23 October 2026. There are no results yet.
Kenya's Ministry of Health lists cholera, dengue and Rift Valley fever among the risks of the October–December rains, The Standard reported on 15 September, and WHO links all three to heavy rain; Rift Valley fever outbreaks in Kenya in 1997–98 and 2006–07 came after heavy rain, WHO and a 2009 study say.
El Niño is forecast to pass the +2.6°C record for the Niño 3.4 index, the World Meteorological Organization said on 8 October 2026; NOAA material and journal papers explain why that tends to mean more rain in East Africa and less in the south.
Uganda's Ministry of Health said on 20 October that the Ebola patient confirmed in Nigeria passed through the country in early October, but that this does not show she was infected there, Xinhua reported on 21 October 2026.
Humidity of about 70 per cent makes heat harder on the body in Kisumu, Kenya, and the county's proposed 2027–2032 heat plan includes cool roofing for existing homes, the Kenya News Agency reported on 19 October 2026.
Kenya's Director General for Health Patrick Amoth said on 18 October the ministry hoped to start giving remdesivir to Ebola patients under compassionate use the next day; a US CDC report on 18 patients treated in Uganda who all received the drug did not establish whether it caused their recovery, Business Daily reported on 19 October.
Kenya's Ministry of Health has warned that Ebola can at first look like malaria, with the country's case total at eight, Capital FM reported on 19 October. WHO says the early symptoms are similar and laboratory tests such as RT-PCR confirm which disease it is.
Madagascar's Ministry of Public Health announced four confirmed and five suspected plague cases on 13 October, Xinhua reported on 14 October; WHO says the bacterium is usually found in small mammals and their fleas, and the US CDC says antibiotics cure plague if given promptly.
Kenya's Ministry of Health said on 17 October that 128 of the 130 people listed as Ebola contacts had been traced and quarantined and that two were still being sought, Reuters reported; in a statement on 17 October, Africa CDC called for infection prevention and protective equipment for frontline health workers.
Resistant E. coli in 2,320 stool samples from a Nairobi informal settlement varied by area and by antibiotic exposure, a PLOS ONE paper published on 24 June 2026 reports.
KMD says its October–December forecast stands although rains have started late in places, and an ICPAC climate scientist says a strong El Niño does not mean extremely heavy rain, the Kenya News Agency reported on 16 October.
