Africa / Kenya · Science & Health

Ebola spreads in eastern DRC as Kenya confirms imported case and first death

Rank
Running: 27h
Updated: 10h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 5
Regions: 4
Countries: 5
Languages: 2

Egypt Independent Egypt · English 10 Oct, 07:13 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Português (1)

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Egypt Independent, 10 Oct, 07:13 UTC.
Second country: France, with RFI.
Second region: Europe, with RFI.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 10 Oct, 07:13 UTC.
Now: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

20%40%20%20%

Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%
Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 40%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%

First movers

Egypt Independent 10 Oct, 07:13 UTC
RFI +8m
CNN Brasil +7h 38m
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation +8h 38m
Al Jazeera +17h 10m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Kenya reports first Ebola case, heightens border screening, 7 to 9 Oct 2026, 14 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 5 outlets in 5 countries, across 4 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 5 outlets, 2 state-owned, 1 public-service, 2 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Egypt. Americas 2: Barbados, Brazil. Europe 1: France. Middle East 1: Qatar. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English, Portuguese.
Timeline: Earliest article Egypt Independent, 10 Oct 2026, 07:13 UTC. First seen 10 Oct 2026, 07:30 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 00:23 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Africa, Kenya. Topic Science & Health. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.46, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continues Kenya reports first Ebola case, heightens border screening. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

10 Oct 2026 285 2.70 4 4 4 4 4.7

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Started 10 Oct, 07:30 UTC · Updated 11 Oct, 00:23 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Al Jazeera Qatar 11 Oct, 00:23 UTC
Ebola spreads in eastern DRC as Kenya confirms imported case
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation Barbados 10 Oct, 15:52 UTC
Kenya prepared for Ebola, it still slipped through a warning of wider cross-border spread
CNN Brasil Brazil 10 Oct, 14:51 UTC
Ebola avança no Quênia apesar de esforços de prevenção e acende alerta
RFI France 10 Oct, 07:21 UTC
A race against time to prevent an outbreak follows Kenya's first Ebola death
Egypt Independent Egypt 10 Oct, 07:13 UTC
Kenya prepared for Ebola. It still slipped through — a warning of wider cross-border spread