The strategy marks a sharp break from past practice during previous outbreaks. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

WASHINGTON, May 28 - The United States is setting up a facility in Kenya to quarantine U.S. citizens who have been exposed to Ebola, and will not bring them home if they develop symptoms, the White House said on Thursday. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

KINSHASA/BUNIA, May 28 - Kenya has approved a request from the U.S. to open a quarantine facility in the East African nation for Americans exposed to Ebola, U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday, as the head of the World Health Organization was travelling to the epicentre of the outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is preparing a quarantine facility in Kenya for Americans who have been exposed to Ebola amid the escalating outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an administration official said Wednesday. The move is a departure from previous Ebola outbreaks, which often involved flying Americans exposed to the virus back to the U.S. for quarantine or treatment. Lawrence Gostin, the director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law, said the decision to quarantine Americans in Kenya is “unprecedented.” “It is likely to cost American lives,” Gostin wrote in an email. “We have an ethical duty to protect U.S. citizens, especially brave health and humanitarian workers who have cared for Ebola patients. It is impossible to give high quality care to Ebola patients in Kenya, compared with our state-of-the-art facilities in the U.S.” The outbreak in Congo has rapidly worsened, with cases climbing to more than 1,000 and deaths topping 200…

Daijiworld Media Network – Kinshasa Kinshasa, May 28: World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is travelling to Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as authorities intensify efforts to contain the country’s 17th Ebola outbreak. In a message posted on X on Thursday, T.....

The Trump administration on Thursday announced additional steps to fight an alarming Ebola outbreak in Africa and prevent cases from reaching U.S. shores.

As the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo continues to expand, the Trump administration announced new measures aimed at preventing the virus from reaching the United States, including the creation of a specialized treatment and quarantine facility in Kenya for Americans exposed to the disease in Africa. Speaking during a Cabinet meeting, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington intends to stop Ebola cases from entering the country.