Ebola quarantine facility in Kenya for Americans sparks backlash
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Kenyan protesters are demonstrating against plans to build a quarantine center in Kenya for Americans who may have been exposed to Ebola. Critics say it exposes Kenyans to risk, without offering them the same protections provided to US citizens. Also, a new study has found multiple types of microbes preserved in the body of Otzi, the iceman mummified in a glacier from the Copper Age, which could potentially offer new insights for future medical research. And, the civil war in Sudan is complicating research into an ancient civilization in the country known for millennia as the Kingdom of Kush. Plus, Japan releases eight crested ibises, that went extinct in the country, into the wild.
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| 0:09.2 | I'm David Remnick, and each week on the New Yorker Radio Hour, my colleagues and I try to make sense of what's happening in this chaotic world. |
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| 0:31.0 | The U.S. is looking to set up a quarantine facility for Americans who contract the Ebola virus. |
| 0:40.3 | The proposed location, Kenya. |
| 0:42.3 | If America does not want this disease in their country, why is it that we, our government, would want to have this disease in our country? |
| 0:51.3 | I'm Marco Werman. |
| 0:53.3 | And I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 0:54.6 | Today, what's been discussed, where it stands, and how it's going over in Kenya. |
| 0:59.0 | Also, we visit an ancient city from the Kingdom of Kush in Sudan. |
| 1:02.7 | It's an ancient city with a kind of a monumental area of temples and palaces. |
| 1:09.6 | It has groups of royal pyramids. Plus, a Palestinian-American Jen Exer remembers her struggle to fit in at school. There was a group of girls. I called the Jennifer's. And I wanted to be just like them. That's all ahead on the world. |
| 1:36.9 | This is the world. I'm Marco Wormann. And I'm Carolyn Beeler. Thank you for joining us on this Wednesday. We start today in Kenya, where U.S. officials plan to establish a quarantine facility |
| 1:42.3 | to monitor Americans who may have been exposed to |
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