US Opens Ebola Quarantine Site in Kenya Despite Court Block and Deadly Protests

US Opens Ebola Quarantine Site in Kenya Despite Court Block and Deadly Protests

Seven American aid workers from the charity Samaritan's Purse are the first people placed in a US-built 50-bed isolation facility in Nanyuki, Kenya, to watch for Ebola symptoms over 21 days. The site opened despite a court order to stop it, a ruling that Kenya's health minister defied it, and protests that killed two people.

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