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The Wall Street Journal reported on the 26th (local time) that the Trump administration plans to send public health officers to Kenya to establish Ebola isolation facilities for U.S. citizens in Africa.
People familiar with the matter said the administration intends to set up facilities in Kenya to house Americans who test positive for Ebola or who face a high risk of exposure, amid a recent surge of cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kenya has not reported any Ebola cases. Some members of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps — the federal uniformed service under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — have been notified of deployments to Kenya.
An administration official said the plan calls for a state-of-the-art facility in Kenya. It would be designed to isolate Americans who need rapid evacuation from the DRC without requiring long-distance transport back to the United States.
Recently, the administration has begun sending Americans suspected of Ebola exposure to other countries rather than repatriating them to the United States.
One U.S. physician who had been working in the DRC recently tested positive for Ebola and was flown to Germany.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently determined after the fact that one passenger holding DRC nationality was aboard an Air France flight from Paris to Detroit. CBP denied the passenger entry, and the flight was diverted to land in Canada.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the risk of Ebola spreading among the general U.S. public remains low. Still, the administration has tightened entry restrictions for travelers from affected countries.
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