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Health officials oppose US plan to treat Ebola-exposed Americans overseas
- U.S. public‑health experts warned Congress against a proposed policy to treat Americans exposed to Ebola in Kenya or the EU, saying it breaks with medical repatriation and creates serious clinical, ethical and legal risks.
- The Trump administration plans to quarantine exposed U.S. citizens in Kenya and send any symptomatic cases to a third country rather than repatriate them, a move critics say could deter outbreak responders and divert resources from controlling the outbreak at its source.
- The plan has sparked local opposition and legal pushback in Kenya: a court temporarily suspended the quarantine facility after a lawsuit argued it could endanger public health.
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