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Kenya Opens 50-Bed Ebola Quarantine for U.S. Volunteers

5/29/2026

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Kenya approved opening a 50-bed Ebola quarantine facility for exposed Americans at Laikipia Air Base, with operations to begin Friday.
The Trump administration will staff the facility with U.S. officers trained at Joint Base Andrews and will send symptomatic patients to European hospitals instead of repatriating them.
Critics say the plan breaks past repatriation practice, could deter volunteers, and note that a Kenyan legal group has sued over the arrangement.

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Kenya approved opening a 50-bed Ebola quarantine facility for exposed Americans at Laikipia Air Base, with operations to begin Friday.
The Trump administration will staff the facility with U.S. officers trained at Joint Base Andrews and will send symptomatic patients to European hospitals instead of repatriating them.
Critics say the plan breaks past repatriation practice, could deter volunteers, and note that a Kenyan legal group has sued over the arrangement.