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Kenya reports second Ebola death, a relative of first patient

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Kenya's Health Ministry said a 65-year-old woman died of Ebola on Friday after developing symptoms while in quarantine. She was a close family member of the outbreak's first victim, a man who had traveled from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The outbreak has also spread to Nigeria, which recorded its first case this week, and authorities are investigating possible links between the Kenyan and Nigerian cases.

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