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Why the US doesn’t want American Ebola patients to return home

Activists in Nairobi, Kenya, protest against a US-built Ebola quarantine center planned to begin operations at Kenya's Laikipia Air Base on June 2, 2026. | Luis Tato / AFP via Getty Images As global concern about an Ebola outbreak in central Africa grows, hundreds of Kenyans have taken to the streets to protest a plan by the Trump administration to send American citizens who have been exposed to the virus to Kenya, rather than bringing them back to the US. Two people have been shot and killed during the protests. The outbreak started in the Democratic Republic of Congo last month and...