{"id":9797,"date":"2026-05-27T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthoptibody.com\/?p=9797"},"modified":"2026-05-27T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:28:08","slug":"americans-exposed-to-ebola-face-being-shipped-to-kenya-under-shock-trump-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthoptibody.com\/?p=9797","title":{"rendered":"Americans exposed to Ebola face being shipped to Kenya under shock Trump plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Americans exposed to <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/ebola\/index.html\" id=\"mol-1b20dfd0-5a0d-11f1-a7be-09c6ea06392f\">Ebola<\/a>\u00a0could be quarantined in Kenya rather than the US, the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/white-house\/index.html\" id=\"mol-cb9b7c10-5a0f-11f1-a7be-09c6ea06392f\">White House<\/a> has confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In a statement to the Daily Mail, an official confirmed that the administration was drawing up plans with the Kenyan government to set up a facility for asymptomatic people who were thought to have been exposed to the disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The statement said: &#8216;As part of a coordinated multi-national response to the worsening Ebola health emergency, the US government is working with the Government of Kenya and other partners to plan for a facility for asymptomatic individuals suspected of exposure to the Ebola virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Kenya and the US share an historic health partnership that over decades has benefitted both Americans and Kenyans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Our joint response to the current Ebola outbreak is a natural extension of our longstanding cooperation.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It came as Secretary of State <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/marco_rubio\/index.html\" id=\"mol-c4be6900-5a07-11f1-a7be-09c6ea06392f\">Marco Rubio<\/a> said in Wednesday&#8217;s cabinet meeting that the administration would not allow Ebola to enter the US, as an outbreak of the deadly disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo quickly spreads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He said: &#8216;The number one priority of our foreign policy is to protect the American people. We cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola into the US.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He added that the US government was &#8216;working very, very hard to contain this crisis to the countries where it is currently located&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8fda6324684335d8\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/05\/27\/21\/108914373-15853499-image-a-2_1779915120578.jpg\" height=\"418\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The US is planning to quarantine Americans exposed to Ebola in Kenya, reports suggest. Pictured above are Red Cross workers lowering the coffin of Ebola virus victim Dr Tibenderana Katho Blaise into his grave in a cemetery near Bunia, the DRC\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The US is planning to quarantine Americans exposed to Ebola in Kenya, reports suggest. Pictured above are Red Cross workers lowering the coffin of Ebola virus victim Dr Tibenderana Katho Blaise into his grave in a cemetery near Bunia, the DRC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe data-xpmodule-iframe-resizable=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" name=\"xp-iframe-mpomt3zolhe2i6jsrw\" class=\"iframe-creator \" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/html_modules\/Annie\/tests\/240905-healthsubheading-finalversion\/index.html\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" height=\"45\" style=\"border: 0; width: 0; min-width: 100%; \" id=\"xp-iframe-mpomt3zolhe2i6jsrw\"><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A major Ebola outbreak in central Africa has <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/health\/article-15851441\/Ebola-outbreak-spreading-faster-controlled-warns-cases-rise-1-000.html\">caught health officials off guard <\/a>and already led to more than 1,000 suspected cases and 220 suspected deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">One American, a missionary doctor, has tested positive for the disease and has been flown to Germany for treatment, where his condition is reportedly &#8216;trending slightly in the right direction&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">His American colleague, also a health care worker, has been quarantined in Prague, the Czech Republic, where he is being monitored but currently has no symptoms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Cases have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda so far. Infections were first detected in Bunia, a city of nearly a million people in the DRC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Under the plans, which were first reported by the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/26\/us\/politics\/trump-ebola-kenya.html\">New York Times<\/a> and the\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2026\/05\/27\/us-send-americans-exposed-ebola-kenya-quarantine-facility\/\">Washington Post<\/a>, health officials are said to be considering transporting pre-made biocontainment units to Kenya to set up a field hospital in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Sources said the initial plan was to have 50 beds, although this could be scaled up to 250 beds if that was needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Initially, officials had planned to transfer any Ebola-infected patients to Europe. But now, according to two people who spoke to the New York Times, any sick individuals will be treated in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It was also reported that officials were considering equipping the facility with the necessary tools to treat patients who are infected with Ebola.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-219f62ff1717113c\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/05\/27\/21\/108914371-15853499-image-a-3_1779915131623.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Healthcare workers pictured in protective gowns and masks near Goma, the DRC\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Healthcare workers pictured in protective gowns and masks near Goma, the DRC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-1a3a864344111a88\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/05\/27\/22\/108914369-15853499-Healthcare_workers_pictured_with_locals_who_are_washing_their_ha-a-3_1779916446825.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Healthcare workers pictured with locals who are washing their hands set up at a checkpoint near Goma, the DRC. It is a preventive measure to limit the spread of the virus\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Healthcare workers pictured with locals who are washing their hands set up at a checkpoint near Goma, the DRC. It is a preventive measure to limit the spread of the virus<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The new facility is reportedly being set up by the State and Defense Department and the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Estimates suggest that up to 5,000 Americans are in the DRC, although it is not clear how many are in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It was not clear how long individuals may be required to stay at the Kenyan field hospital, but symptoms of Ebola can take up to 21 days to emerge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Early warning signs are often similar to the flu, and include a fever, severe headache, fatigue or weakness, but can quickly progress to vomiting, diarrhea and unexplained bleeding or bruising. Without treatment, the disease can also cause internal bleeding which leads to death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Speaking at the cabinet meeting, Rubio added that agencies were also now &#8216;tracking people&#8217; to make sure that no one with Ebola entered the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He continued: &#8216;We feel like we have good efforts in place to do that and Americans should feel sure that the president and his administration is doing everything we can to protect them on that front.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Health officials were caught off-guard by the outbreak, which was not detected until there were hundreds of suspected cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The first case was detected on April 24 in a health worker in Bunia, DRC, at the center of the outbreak, who had suffered from a fever, hemorrhaging and vomiting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The individual died from the infection, but it took three weeks for tests to be carried out that revealed they had Ebola &#8211; allowing time for the disease to spread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Cases are being caused by the Bundibugyo variant, a rare form of the disease for which there is no vaccine or treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Estimates suggest about 50 percent of people who are infected die from the disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Ebola, however, does not spread as easily as Covid or the flu. To pass it on, someone has to come into contact with infected fluids from another patient.<\/p>\n<p><iframe data-xpmodule-iframe-resizable=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" name=\"xp-iframe-mpomum42zz9rjwo76d\" class=\"iframe-creator \" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/i\/html_modules\/2026\/05_MAY\/260525_ebola_outbreaks\/index.html\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" height=\"300\" style=\"border: 0; width: 0; min-width: 100%; \" id=\"xp-iframe-mpomum42zz9rjwo76d\"><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>    <iframe data-xpmodule-iframe-resizable=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" name=\"xp-iframe-mpomuuwjx1vddre95w\" class=\"iframe-creator \" src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/29117038\/embed\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" height=\"300\" style=\"border: 0; width: 0; min-width: 100%; \" id=\"xp-iframe-mpomuuwjx1vddre95w\"><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Officials introduced travel restrictions for people coming to the US from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and South Sudan last week, requiring any passenger who has visited these countries within the last 21 days to arrive via\u00a0George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Washington Dulles International Airport and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport for screening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Last week, a flight from Paris to Detroit was forced to divert to Canada after it emerged that a passenger from the Ebola-hit Democratic Republic of Congo was on board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The CDC and other health officials say the risk posed by the virus to people in the US and Europe is currently low.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Concerns were raised that the disease may have reached Italy yesterday after two individuals who had recently visited Uganda developed symptoms consistent with a potential infection, although tests were negative for the disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Health officials are now been deployed to the region to find the thousands of people who may have been exposed to the virus and ask them to quarantine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But the response is being hampered owing to a lack of supplies as well as conflict in the area and mistrust in the local community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Documents from Friday&#8217;s virtual meeting show that, as of last week, only seven percent of the 1,261 people identified as contacts of suspected Ebola patients had been found and followed up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The World Health Organization&#8217;s director has now warned that the disease is &#8216;outpacing the response&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Addressing the African Union, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: &#8216;We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment the epidemic is outpacing us.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><mol-permabox id=\"mol-08994360-5a0e-11f1-a7be-09c6ea06392f\"><\/p>\n<div class=\" mol-factbox health art-ins\" data-version=\"2\" id=\"mol-f6069ed0-52d9-11e8-b51a-21b1618a69c6\" data-permabox-url=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/health\/fb-5704909\/WHAT-EBOLA-DEADLY-IT.html\">\n<h3 class=\"mol-factbox-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/health\/fb-5704909\/WHAT-EBOLA-DEADLY-IT.html\"><span class=\"is-paywalled\" data-content-propensity=\"3\" data-paywalled-countries=\"\"><\/span>WHAT IS EBOLA AND HOW DEADLY IS IT?<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"ins cleared mol-factbox-body\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Ebola, a haemorrhagic fever, killed at least 11,000 across the world after it decimated West Africa and spread rapidly over the space of two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">That epidemic was officially declared over back in January 2016, when Liberia was announced to be Ebola-free by the WHO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The country, rocked by back-to-back civil wars that ended in 2003, was hit the hardest by the fever, with 40 per cent of the deaths having occurred there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Sierra Leone reported the highest number of Ebola cases, with nearly of all those infected having been residents of the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">WHERE DID IT BEGIN?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">An analysis, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found the outbreak began in Guinea &#8211; which neighbours Liberia and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A team of international researchers were able to trace the epidemic back to a two-year-old boy in Meliandou &#8211; about 400 miles (650km) from the capital, Conakry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Emile Ouamouno, known more commonly as Patient Zero,\u00a0may have contracted the deadly virus by playing with bats in a hollow tree, a study suggested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE STRUCK DOWN?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"health\" id=\"mol-f6087390-52d9-11e8-b51a-21b1618a69c6\">\n<table class=\"mol-table\" data-swipe-article=\"false\" width=\"100%\">\n<caption class=\"wocc\">WHICH COUNTRIES WERE STRUCK DOWN BY EBOLA DURING THE 2014-16 EPIDEMIC? (CDC figures)<\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>COUNTRY\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/th>\n<th>CASES\u00a0<\/th>\n<th>DEATHS<\/th>\n<th>DEATH RATE (%)\u00a0<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>GUINEA<\/td>\n<td>3,814<\/td>\n<td>2,544<\/td>\n<td>66.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SIERRA LEONE\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>14,124\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>3,956\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>28.0%\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>LIBERIA\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>10,678\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>4,810\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>45.0%\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>NIGERIA\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>20\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>8\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>40.0%\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SENEGAL\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>1\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>0\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>N\/A\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPAIN\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>1\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>0\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>N\/A\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>US\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>4\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>1\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>25.0%\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MALI\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>8\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>6\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>75.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>UK\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>1\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>0\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>N\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ITALY\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>1\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>0\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>N\/A\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Figures show nearly 29,000 people were infected from Ebola &#8211; meaning the virus killed around 40 per cent of those it struck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Cases and deaths were also reported in Nigeria, Mali and the US &#8211; but on a much smaller scale, with 15 fatalities between the three nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Health officials in Guinea reported a mysterious bug in the south-eastern regions of the country before the WHO confirmed it was Ebola.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Ebola was first identified by scientists in 1976, but the most recent outbreak dwarfed all other ones recorded in history, figures show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">HOW DID HUMANS CONTRACT THE VIRUS?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Scientists believe Ebola is most often passed to humans by fruit bats, but antelope, porcupines, gorillas and chimpanzees could also be to blame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It can be transmitted between humans through blood, secretions and other bodily fluids of people &#8211; and surfaces &#8211; that have been infected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">IS THERE A TREATMENT?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The WHO warns that there is &#8216;no proven treatment&#8217; for Ebola &#8211; but dozens of drugs and jabs are being tested in case of a similarly devastating outbreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Hope exists though, after an experimental vaccine, called rVSV-ZEBOV, protected nearly 6,000 people. 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