Abdhalah Ziraba

The Conversation
A border screening at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

Kenya responded fast to Ebola scare, but cross-border risk remains high

Disease

The second largest Ebola outbreak on record is currently raging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with more than 1,400 deaths recorded. Kenya may be the next country at risk for an outbreak following two confirmed deaths in Uganda, which shares a porous border with DRC.