Kenya court blocks US plan for Ebola quarantine facility

A Kenyan court blocked the government from signing off on a US deal to establish a quarantine facility for Americans exposed to Ebola. The Trump administration said it cannot allow Ebola cases to enter the US. During the 2014 to 2016 outbreak, some infected US citizens were treated in the US. The proposal triggered backlash from medical workers in Kenya, where no Ebola cases have been confirmed. The CEO of a Kenyan medical workers union said Kenya is a sovereign republic, not a quarantine location. The current Ebola outbreak is centered in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo near Uganda and South Sudan, with over 1,000 suspected cases and at least 246 deaths reported. Ebola spreads through contact with bodily fluids or contaminated objects.

"A court in Kenya on Friday blocked the government from signing off on a deal with the US to establish a quarantine facility for Americans exposed to Ebola. The Trump administration has said it "cannot and will not allow" any cases of Ebola to enter the US. During the 2014 to 2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, several US citizens who were infected with Ebola were treated on American soil. The US proposal to set up a quarantine facility prompted backlash from medical workers in the East African country, where no Ebola cases have been confirmed."

"Uganda closed its border this week after several cases were confirmed and one death was reported in the capital, Kampala. In the DRC, there are more than 1,000 suspected cases. The disease is believed to have led to the deaths of at least 246 people, according to the latest data from the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ebola spreads between people through contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person or contaminated objects."

"What do we know about the Ebola outbreak? The current outbreak is centered in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in a war-torn area that borders Uganda and South Sudan. Uganda closed its border this week after several cases were confirmed and one death was reported in the capital, Kampala. In the DRC,there are more than 1,000 suspected cases. The disease is believed to have led to the deaths of at least 246 people, according to the latest data from the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

""Kenya is a sovereign republic, not a geopolitical isolation ward," Davji Bhimji Atellah, the Chief Executive Officer at Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union, said on X. What is the US plan to set up a quarantine facility in Kenya? Multiple media outlets reported earlier this week that the US was planning to send Americans who are exposed to Ebola while abroad to a new facility in Kenya, instead of flying them home."

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