Police in riot gear hold batons while facing a group of demonstrators on a street, with people walking and riding bicycles.

Ebola quarantine facility in Kenya for Americans sparks backlash

Full Episode
49:16

Anti-riot police officers stand by as demonstrators protest against a proposed Ebola quarantine center to be established by the United States at Laikipia Air Base in Nanyuki, Kenya, June 1, 2026.

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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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In This Episode

US-run Ebola quarantine facility sparks backlash in Kenya
7:38
Lawsuit hopes to get three African elephants out of the Johannesburg Zoo
5:30
A childhood search for belonging gone awry
7:59
New study of Otzi the iceman identifies surviving microbes
5:03
Patrick Bebey remembers his father’s musical legacy
5:14
Japan releases 8 birds into the wild that were extinct in the country
1:34
A different kind of ‘Fintech’
Special Coverage
5:10
How Sudan’s civil war disrupts research into the ancient civilization of Kush
7:42