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US Advances Kenya Ebola Quarantine Over Injunction

6/4/2026

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  • The administration is proceeding with a 50-bed Ebola quarantine and treatment unit at Laikipia airbase in Kenya despite a court injunction.
  • Former CDC leaders and union president Yolanda Jacobs condemned the plan as ethically flawed, abandoning CDC workers and breaking from past practice.
  • Infectious Diseases Society of America leader Ronald Nahass said U.S. biocontainment facilities can safely treat exposed Americans at home, making overseas quarantine unnecessary.