Education CS Ezekiel Machogu will today visit Mukumu Girls High school in Kakamega County.
This follows the school’s closure on April 3, after an outbreak that claimed the lives of three students and one teacher- and left hundreds of others hospitalized, and in critical condition.
The CS is making his first appearance in the school after a week and a half of the ongoing tragedy.
"Machogu will assess the situation in the area following an outbreak of a disease that has killed four people, among them three students and one teacher," reads an invite sent to media houses.
The CS will address the press at 10.30 am at the Shinyalu Sub-county -located school.
In the first week, Basic Education PS Belio Kipsang and Health CS Susan Nakhumicha visited the school.
The Ministry of Health said the food Mukumu girls high school students consumed was contaminated with fresh faeces.
Director General for Health Patrick Amoth made the revelation in In a statement on Friday.
"The Ministry wishes to inform the general public that this disease is likely to be a mixture of E. coli and Salmonella typhi which usually occurs if water sources are contaminated with these micro-organisms," he said.
Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a bacteria commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms that can cause food poisoning.
Salmonella enterica typhi is a gram-negative bacterium that is responsible for typhoid fever.
Amoth added that further laboratory investigations carried out on the grains and pulses for aflatoxin turned negative for aflatoxicosis.
"Laboratory tests for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (VHFs) including Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), Leptospirosis and Crimean- Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), Dengue Fever, Rift Valley Fever (RVF) and West Nile Virus have all turned negative," he said.
"The Ministry is conducting further analysis on these samples to ascertain any other potential cause of this illness, and will communicate the finding of these tests."
