US urges citizens to ‘reconsider’ travel to Kenya after Ebola cases

The United States on Tuesday warned its citizens against travel to Kenya, raising its travel advisory after the country reported an eighth Ebola case.
In the east African country’s first-ever case of the virus, a Kenyan citizen living in the Democratic Republic of Congo — where a major outbreak since May has killed more than 4,000 people — tested positive after returning home in early October.
There have since been seven further cases, most in people with a close connection to the first victim, who died in the capital Nairobi on October 5.
“The level was changed from Level 2 to Level 3 due to health risks,” the US embassy in Kenya said in a statement, a day after the Department of S...