Trump officials to send Ebola-exposed Americans to Kenya rather than bring them home: NYT

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

May 26, 2026 7:40PM ET


The Trump administration wants to send U.S. citizens living abroad who are exposed to the deadly Ebola virus to Kenya rather than bring them home, according to new reporting by the New York Times. Three people familiar with the Trump administration's plans spoke with the NYT, which noted that previous administrations brought Americans home for observation and treatment.

The outbreak of Ebola is in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The World Health Organization declared it a public health emergency. More than 1,000 cases of Ebola and 200 deaths have been reported during the past 11 days, which makes it the third largest outbreak on record, according to the NYT.

Trump administration insiders told the NYT that the original plan was to send Ebola-exposed Americans to Kenya for monitoring and then to Europe for treatment if they show symptoms.

"But the administration now plans to provide treatment in Kenya as well," insiders told the NYT. Trump officials are already setting up a facility in Kenya where Americans can be quarantined and treated for Ebola, the NYT added.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-officials-to-send-ebola-exposed-americans-to-kenya-rather-than-bring-them-home-nyt/

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Link to NYT article - Trump Administration to Send Americans Exposed to Ebola to Kenya

[Lovie777]

1. WOW..............

so Christian of them.........................

NOT.

[rampartd]

2. i like the idea

harsh as it sounds, people with contagious diseases must be quarantined.

[AZLD4Candidate]

7. Yes. Because leper colonies were such a wonderful idea

Why not also strip these Americans of their citizenship so deporting sick people will be easier?

[rampartd]

17. nothing to do with citizenship

unless trump gets even stupider than usual.

until leprosy was well understood leper colonies were the best idea available. until covid was better understood, the steps taken in 2021 were reasonable and necessary.

[aeromanKC]

9. Yes, would rather they find a place to quarantine somewhere in the US but quarantine nonetheless

[AZLD4Candidate]

14. So much for the right of repatriation, right?

[rampartd]

18. ebola has a 'right of repatriation?"

[littlemissmartypants]

12. But not somewhere where they...

Compound the burden of the locals who are already operating on limited resources when they could be brought HOME to receive care that is most likely to support better health outcomes.

The stupidity of this isolationist crap is not only counterintuitive but deadly.

This regime is marked by immorality and incompetence, which is always a despicable combination.

Science doesn't care what they believe, and disease doesn't have time for their idiocy.

Danger hidden in the dark is still dangerous.

[rampartd]

19. +1 overburdening the locals should be avoided.

with a normal cdc i might say that he team and supplies we send for our citizens should be enough to help the locals. the maha boys they will probably send that dewormer that they use to cureall. instead./

[Miguelito Loveless]

22. It is harsh

and quite inhumane.

[rampartd]

24. inhumane might be exposing more flight crews and such.

[Miguelito Loveless]

33. If a person has been exposed to ebola

they certainly should not fly commercial. They should be flown back on a CDC/USAMRID plane with trained personnel.

[GCG]

26. It's great idea

If you actually believe anything this lying administration says!

I believe that the plan is to send those Americans to Kenya, and dump them on the WHO...without any assistance from the US Government!

In other words...send them to Kenya so they can die!!!

[rampartd]

27. this administration has inspired a healthy skepticism

rfk might have the team looking for exotic roadkill .

[SSJVegeta]

29. At the risk of getting put in the stocks with you

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It literally doesnt come close to the worst ideas this admin has brought up. Although it is consistent with some of the worst ideas...

[JBTaurus83]

3. God help us if someone infected

Comes here. Clowns are running the show.

[johnnyfins]

4. I wouldnt be surprised if it was already here

[rampartd]

20. if we test for it, might make dear leader look bad.

[johnnyfins]

32. Oh yeah. I forgot. No testing means no cases.

Or some bullshit like that.

[littlemissmartypants]

13. It's the lack of contact tracing that's the real worry. I'm sure that there are already cases in the US. ...

The outbreak started at the end of January. Because of the dismantling of the USAID network, we're just now finding out about it.

[Vinca]

5. Considering the incompetence of this administration, I agree with this particular decision. The last thing

we need is an outbreak of Ebola in this country. It would make the Covid pandemic and Trump's bungling of it look like the good old days.

[AZLD4Candidate]

8. Why stop with ebola? Obese people get sick? People with genetic diseases too,

Got to weed out the weak and "useless." Hell, let's just start euthanizing the undesirable Americans in our population. The ones that make us look bad. The unerwünschte Elemente as one could say.

After all, it isn't like that hasn't been done before ever, ever, ever.

[ToxMarz]

6. I'm surprised he's not trying to revoke their citizenship

Trump likes Americans who didn't get Ebola.

[3Hotdogs]

10. But then they'd have to live in a shit-hole country forever . I guess it would serve 'em right for going to a

shit-hole country in the first place. They should spend their money in first rate countries like Disney Land or Las Vegas.

[AZLD4Candidate]

11. From the article: "But the administration now plans to provide treatment in Kenya as well,"

Like Trumpcare, which is simply "don't get hurt or sick and if you do, die quickly."

Wow, does this idea sound like the deportation beginning of Americans Trump doesn't want here. Sort of a pilot program deporting and refusing admittance to the American citizen version of "low hanging fruit."

Slippery slope logical fallacy, I know. . .but let's look at his deportation record:

1: Undocumented immigrants in gangs, then;
2 Undocumented immigrants with felony records, then;
3: Undocumented immigrants with minor records (like DUI), then;
4: Undocumented immigrants with no records, then;
5: Documented immigrants in gangs, then;
6: Documented immigrants with felonies, then;
7: Documented immigrants with minor records (like misdemeanors), then;
8: Documented immigrants with no record, then;
9: Sick Americans, then. . .

And to show logical conclusion,
10: Americans in gangs, then;
11: Americans with criminal records, then;
12: Americans with no records deemed undesirable, then;
13: Americans that disagree with Republicans, then;
14: American Muslims, then;
15: American minorities, including Native Americans, then;
16: Americans not Christian, then;
17: Non wealthy Americans to a point (gotta keep certain things going), then. . .

[dalton99a]

15. Kick

Ebola has a death rate of about 50 percent, but early access to high-quality care and treatments can dramatically improve the odds of survival.

The United States has multiple facilities with state-of-the-art resources for monitoring and treating people with dangerous diseases, including Ebola. These include a unit in Omaha where 18 Americans are under observation for hantavirus following an outbreak on a Dutch cruise ship this month.

While the facility in Kenya may be better than those in Congo, it is unlikely to match the sophistication of those established in the United States for Ebola and other dangerous pathogens, according to Dr. Craig Spencer, a public health expert at Brown University.

“I find it hard to believe that they’re going to be able to stand up in the span of a couple days or even months a similar system that has been created over the past decade to do exactly this,” Dr. Spencer said.

Dr. Spencer is an emergency medicine physician who contracted Ebola in 2014 after treating patients in Guinea. He was in the intensive care unit at Bellevue Hospital in New York City for 19 days. Leaving Americans in Africa rather than bringing them home is “a dramatic abdication of what we owe our own,” Dr. Spencer said.

[FakeNoose]

21. Better yet - put them on sea cruise ... Carnival Lines has a few openings

The other passengers won't care!

[Solly Mack]

23. ...

[karynnj]

25. He might be reacting to the panic generated by the

treatment of American health officials who contracted ebola during the Obama administration. Nine Americans, who got ebola in Africa were brought back for treatment
2 Americans were exposed and got ebola from contact with these patients.

Though those numbers are very small, they were used to stir up fear and the Obama administration was blamed. This while the US was key in stopping the outbreak in Africa and getting the American hero medical professionals excellent treatment without creating a US epidemic. After it was over, using what they learned, the Obama administration developed protocols and an office to deal with these types of events. Trump eliminated it early in his first term.

[underpants]

30. I remember talk radio extrapolating that out to WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!

I heard a local idiot going on about a guy who got physically ill outside of his apartment in Houston I think. Some local dog will eat it….take it back to its owners…and so on.

[Prairie Gates]

31. Trump himself tweeted about this at the time and demanded that Obama resign over it

We have short memories. When I brought this case up before a DUers was all like "That happened during Obama - Trump wasn't involved." Trump led the charge on Obama's handling of Ebola.

[karynnj]

35. Exactly as I remember it.

It was grossly unfair as it was handled extremely well internationally and domestically.

[rogue emissary]

28. So spread Ebola.

Kenya doesn't have any Ebola cases and how half ass and incompetent our government has become this plan is going to back fire.

[Diamond_Dog]

34. The facility in Kenya hasn't even been built yet!

Donny should inspect it personally once it’s up and running.

[BadgerKid]

36. May 28, 2pm ET: CDC to host webinar for clinicians on managing Ebola: link & slides

https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2026-05-26-cdc-host-webinar-clinicians-managing-ebola

points to

https://www.cdc.gov/coca/hcp/trainings/what-clinicians-should-know-about-ebola-bundibugyo-virus.html