Trump Administration Plans To Send Americans Exposed To Ebola To Kenyan Facility

As the number of Ebola cases continue to rise, the Trump administration is planning to send Americans who have been exposed to the virus to a new facility in Kenya instead of flying them home.

Associated Press quoted an administration official saying that the quarantine and treatment center being set up by the Departments of Defense, State and Health and Human Services will be designed for Ebola patients who need to get out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and receive care quickly.

The official said the decision has been taken take to help patients avoid an hourslong medical evacuation to the US. They further said the facility will take care for the full spectrum of Ebola.

AP reported that it isn’t immediately clear where in Kenya the new

facility will be built or whether the Kenyan government has signed off on the plan.

According to media reports, instead of being flown back to US soil, infected American citizens are being evacuated to top-tier biocontainment facilities in Europe, such as the Charité Hospital in Germany and specialised centers in the Czech Republic.

There is no exact public census of the total number of Americans in the Ebola-hit regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda. However, during the outbreak, health officials confirmed that six Americans in the DRC were exposed to the virus, with at least one testing positive and being medically evacuated to Germany.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the active May 2026 Ebola outbreak in Central Africa a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The epidemic is uniquely challenging because it is driven by the rare Bundibugyo virus strain, for which there are currently no approved vaccines or targeted antiviral treatments.

According to AP, the number of suspected Ebola cases in eastern Congo is nearing 1,000, with at least 220 suspected deaths. Congo’s health ministry on Tuesday said 101 cases have been confirmed.

The outbreak is highly concentrated in two countries – Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda.