A student of Sacred Heart Mukumu Girls' High School in Kakamega County died days after 246 learners were hospitalized with vomiting, diarrhea, and dizziness.
The school's board of management chairman, Dr. Josphat Kaswira, confirmed the death but did not give further details, saying the matter was being discussed first.
Sources at the school said that the student had been sent home to seek treatment after she fell ill, but that her condition worsened, leading to her death.
The initial number of students who were admitted with those symptoms was 124, but this more than doubled, with some of them also complaining of fatigue and breathlessness.
Although it was not immediately established what the students suffered from, initial tests by public health officials ruled out Cholera.
The officials said that food poisoning could be the likely cause of the diarrhea.
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