BND - Kenya confirms first Ebola case

🗞️ Story file #138

Kenya confirms first Ebola case

Oct 6, 8 AM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET

11outlets carried it
🫏4 · 3 · 4🐘left · center · right
11 hourson the front pages
11front pages at once, at its peak
6 minof TV captions

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 6, 8 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Independent
Oct 6, 12 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 6, 1 PM ETpeak: on 11 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 8 AM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 11), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 2 outlets ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word (HuffPost, News Nation)

📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report Google News

💬 quoted: “surges”

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 patient dies

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “Kenya records 1st Ebola death after man travels between several countries” → “Ebola patient dies in Kenya after traveling from DRC to Nairobi”
News Nation (2 wordings): “Kenya confirms first Ebola case after traveler from Congo dies in Nairobi” → “Man living in Congo who returned to Kenya is country's first confirmed Ebola case and first death”
Reuters (3 wordings): “Kenya confirms first Ebola case imported from Congo” → “Kenya confirms first Ebola case after man who travelled from Congo dies”

Every outlet's first headline (11), left to right by AllSides rating