An exclusive on Reuters revealed that seven American citizens who had been to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to help curb the spread of the Ebola outbreak have now been put in quarantine.
The American aid workers' current predicament is a result of the U.S’s new travel restrictions, which state that American citizens returning from regions that experienced an Ebola outbreak must spend three weeks in a third country before reentering the US.
Consequently, the aid workers have been mandated to undergo quarantine at Kenya's newly established and controversial isolation facility.
"Samaritan’s Purse has seven American Disaster Assistance Response Team staff members there," Franklin Graham, president and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse, told Reuters in response to questions.
"None of them have any symptoms, but they are being quarantined by the Kenyan government for 21 days," Graham said.
