Aid group says seven Americans quarantining at Kenya Ebola facility after US travel ban: Report
The policy blocks Americans from flying home from Congo and has sent about 80 aid workers into third-country quarantine, officials said.
- Seven American aid workers employed by the evangelical Christian charity Samaritan's Purse are quarantining at an isolation facility in Kenya following a new U.S. policy requiring citizens returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo to spend 21 days in a third country.
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention implemented travel restrictions to reduce Ebola importation risks to the United States. However, former senior CDC official Daniel Jernigan criticized the 'do-not-board' policy as unprecedented for low-risk travelers.
- Franklin Graham, CEO of Samaritan's Purse, warned the 21-day quarantine could force his organization to scale back its Ebola treatment mission. Graham argued the policy treats healthcare workers "a little bit like they are damaged goods."
- While none of the seven workers show symptoms, Kenyan authorities are supervising the isolation due to one potential high-risk exposure. The workers voluntarily moved to the facility for precautionary monitoring under observation of U.S. Public Health Service clinicians.
- Local residents near the Kenyan air force base facility have protested the U.S.-built quarantine center, accusing the government of offloading health risks. U.S. travel restrictions also apply to specific travelers from Uganda and South Sudan to prevent contagion.
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Several American citizens who were on the front lines of the fight against the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are currently in isolation at a center in Kenya, run by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This information was confirmed to RFI on Friday, July 17, 2026, by a U.S. State Department official, who described it as "a precautionary measure." Washington requires its citizens who have been in the…
Aid group says seven Americans quarantining at Kenya Ebola facility after US travel ban
Washington's new policy says American citizens returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where there is an Ebola outbreak, must spend three weeks in a third country before entering the US
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This is the first time that the United States has confirmed the presence of Americans in this centre run by the American Center for Disease Control – a project that has been suspended by the Kenyan justice system.
The US has accommodated seven American development workers in the Congo against the Ebola outbreak in a quarantine centre in Kenya.
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