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US Ebola facility plan carries more reputational risk for Kenya

Health workers stand in a new Ebola treatment center during a visit of WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Bunia, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on May 31, 2026. [AFP]

“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” - Romans 12:21 

The United States has the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Emory University Hospital, which treated Ebola patients in 2014, and over 55 federally designated biocontainment units built for the most dangerous diseases on earth.

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