EBOLA INFORMATION
ANNUAL SAFETY
COORDINATION
MEETING 2026
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Ebola and Kenya Updates
Updated: 28 October 2026
ACOS is monitoring the Bundibugyo Ebola situation in Kenya closely and we are continuing preparations for our annual meeting in Nairobi. We will update participants if the situation or event arrangements materially change.
As of 26 October, Kenya has reported nine confirmed cases and two deaths, all within one contained cluster linked to an imported case. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports no evidence of community spread. The first 20 contacts have completed 21 days of monitoring without symptoms and have been released, while other contacts remain under monitoring.
ACOS is carrying out additional venue, transport, insurance and emergency-response checks and is conducting confidential exposure assessments where relevant. These assessments are based on actual exposure history, not nationality. ACOS will not ask anyone to travel where the assessed risk is high.
Since 5 October, Kenya has strengthened Ebola contact tracing, quarantine, border screenings and designated treatment capacity. As a result, there are additional screening procedures at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), so allow extra time. See below for more details.
How Ebola spreads and how it does not:
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Unlike Covid-19, Ebola is not spread through the air or by casual proximity. It spreads through direct contact with the blood or body fluids of a person who is sick with Ebola or has died from it, or with materials contaminated by those fluids.
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People are not infectious before they show symptoms. Symptoms include fever, severe weakness, body aches, vomiting, diarrhoea, and unexplained bleeding, and can appear 2 to 21 days after exposure.
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For participants attending a large meeting or conference, sitting in sessions, sharing meals and networking, the risk is extremely low, provided everyone follows basic precautions such as regular hand washing.
Additional Screening measures at airport:
Arriving in Kenya
Health declaration: All travellers arriving in Kenya must complete an online health declaration covering travel history and current health. You should complete this before you land to avoid delays, and answer honestly – the Ministry has stressed that declarations are for early care, not punishment.
Access the Form Here
Screening at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA): All arrivals pass through temperature screening. Passengers arriving from the DRC, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Angola, the Central African Republic, Zambia, and Tanzania are processed through Gate 16 for enhanced screening. Allow extra time on arrival at the airport.
Please note that nationality, residence or travel through a screened country does not mean that a person has Ebola or has been exposed.
Departing from Kenya
Health Declaration: Kenya has also introduced health declaration forms for departing passengers. Please check your airline’s guidance before travel.
Onward travel to the United States: Note: the US currently restricts entry for non-US citizens who have been in the DRC, Uganda, or South Sudan in the previous 21 days. (Being in Kenya does not trigger this restriction.)
Check your own country’s travel advice before departure. Note: the UK’s long-standing restrictions on parts of northern and north-eastern Kenya relate to security, not Ebola, and do not include Nairobi.