Hosting an Ebola quarantine facility for Americans in Nanyuki is a reckless imposition that treats Kenyans as expendable. The Kenyan government secretly negotiated this deal without public participation, and a $13.5 million payment doesn't justify transferring biological risk to a community with no Ebola infrastructure. Kenya's health minister was even found in contempt of court for pushing construction forward anyway.
The Nanyuki facility is staffed by trained U.S. Public Health Service personnel and is part of a broader preparedness system benefiting Kenyans too. Logistical realities make evacuating exposed Americans directly from remote DRC regions dangerous, and the facility exists to monitor exposure — not treat active cases on Kenyan soil. This is a legitimate bilateral partnership built on decades of U.S.-Kenya cooperation.
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