Kenya, US Are in Ebola Complex Talks After Quarantine Report (1)

Kenya is in talks with the US on Ebola-related health cooperation after media reports that the Trump administration is planning to send Americans exposed to the virus to a quarantine facility in the East African nation being built by the US military.

Any such arrangement would be guided by Kenya’s national laws, public-health regulations, and biosafety and biosecurity standards, Health Secretary Aden Duale said in a statement Wednesday.

Red Cross workers arrive at a health center to transport Ebola victims, in Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 20.

Photographer: Moses Sawasawa/AP

“Kenya values its longstanding partnership with the United States and other global partners in strengthening health systems and health security capacities,” Duale said.

The discussions put Kenya at the center ...