A doctor provides care to a patient with Ebola virus disease at the Rwampara Ebola Treatment Centre (ETC) in Bunia, Ituri, July 13, 2026. [AFP]
Seven American humanitarian workers are spending 21 days under medical observation in Kenya not because they are ill, but because they could become ill.
A Reuters report published today confirms they are seven American Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) staff from the Christian humanitarian organisation Samaritan's Purse . Franklin Graham, the organisation's President and CEO, confirmed this, saying:
“Samaritan's Purse has seven American Disaster Assistance Response Team staff members there. None of them have any symptoms, but they are being quarantined by the Kenyan government for 21 days."
The aid workers, all returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where they were involved in responding to the world's largest recorded outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, have no symptoms and have not tested positive for the virus.
