A total of 26 people had died by the time it passedIn 2004, I was sitting my fourth year end-of-year clinical examination as a medical student. The eighth week was always an exam week to end the rotation. The clinical examination is the most unpredictable, yet the most important. Haemorrhagic feversThe country’s 2004 disease outbreak was a strange illness that broke out in Western Kenya, mainly afflicting students in a boys’ boarding school. The examination came and on a sweltering hot afternoon in the North Rift, I came face to face with the external examiner during my oral exam.

Source: Daily Nation April 12, 2020 19:41 UTC