Ebola: US aid workers placed in forced quarantine at Kenyan facility
What you need to know: The seven are quarantining for 21 days at Kenya isolation facilityUS says the asymptomatic group moved there voluntarilySamaritan's Purse aid worker infected with Ebola in Congo this month Seven American aid workers who had been in Congo to fight the Ebola outbreak are quarantining at an isolation facility in Kenya after the US government introduced new travel restrictions, the head of a US charity employing them told Reuters.
The bio-isolation unit, built by the US government on an air force base in central Kenya for Americans exposed to the virus in Democratic Republic of Congo or Uganda, has angered many Kenyans who accuse the US of offloading the health risk of caring for patients.
A US State Department official told Reuters that a group of asymptomatic Americans who had served on the front lines of the Ebola response had "voluntarily moved to the Kenya facility for precautionary monitoring and isolation.
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