Africa / Kenya · Science & Health

Kenya confirms first Ebola case, patient dies in Nairobi

Rank
Running: 41h
Updated: 6h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 94
Regions: 5
Countries: 53
Languages: 19

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: El Sol de México, 6 Oct, 08:17 UTC.
Second country: Kenya, with KBC.
Second region: Africa, with KBC.
Fastest hour: +29 outlets from 6 Oct, 09:01 UTC.
Now: 94 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 53 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

29%13%15%31%

Africa 27 outlets · 12 countries · 29%
Americas 12 outlets · 6 countries · 13%
Asia-Pacific 14 outlets · 11 countries · 15%
Europe 29 outlets · 16 countries · 31%
Middle East 11 outlets · 7 countries · 11%
International 1 outlet · 1%

First movers

El Sol de México 6 Oct, 08:17 UTC
KBC +9m
Citizen Digital +16m
The Guardian +30m
BBC News +32m

Latest arrivals

La Nación (AR) 7 Oct, 17:47 UTC
PressAfrik 7 Oct, 10:33 UTC
The Indian Express 7 Oct, 09:21 UTC
Kabar 7 Oct, 08:40 UTC
Bloomberg 7 Oct, 05:23 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 94 outlets in 53 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 94 outlets, 7 state-owned, 10 public-service, 77 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 12: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda. Americas 6: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Jamaica, Mexico, United States. Asia-Pacific 11: Afghanistan, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan, South Korea, Thailand. Europe 16: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom. Middle East 7: Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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: Arabic, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Nepali, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai.
Timeline: Earliest article El Sol de México, 6 Oct 2026, 08:17 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 08:50 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 20:16 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: 0.52, 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.
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

6 Oct 2026 6 39.95 80 46 80 46 4.6

7 Oct 2026 35 12.89 94 53 18 14 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 6 Oct, 08:50 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 20:16 UTC

Covered by 94 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
6 Oct 2026	6	39.95	80	46	80	46	4.6
7 Oct 2026	35	12.89	94	53	18	14	4.6

Covered by 94 outlets

Africa 27 outlets

Americas 12 outlets

Asia-Pacific 14 outlets

Europe 29 outlets

Middle East 11 outlets

International 1 outlet