Ebola conspiracies

Summary

Today, Explained – “Ebola Conspiracies”

Date: June 1, 2026
Hosts: Noel King, Sean Rameswaram (not present in episode)
Guests:

• Sabrina Siddiqui, National Politics Reporter, Wall Street Journal
• Rael Ambor, Reporter, Washington Post Nairobi
• Various Public Health Officials

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Episode Overview

This episode investigates the Trump administration's controversial plan to send Ebola-exposed American citizens to Kenya for quarantine during a major Central African outbreak, the reactions in both Kenya and the United States, and the larger context of public health policy and Ebola-related conspiracy theories. The episode also delves into why conspiracy theories hamper efforts to control such deadly outbreaks, particularly in mineral-rich but impoverished Eastern Congo.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Trump Administration’s Kenya Plan

Timestamps: 00:02–09:01

• Proposed Quarantine in Kenya: The Trump administration intends to set up a tent-hospital-style quarantine facility at a Kenyan Air Force base for Americans exposed to Ebola, instead of allowing them to return home.
  • “What the administration has been trying to do is set up a quarantine facility in Kenya at an Air Force base where they would essentially house Americans who have been exposed to Ebola and anyone who also tests positive.” — Sabrina Siddiqui (02:13)
• Reasons Provided: Officially, the administration claims its top priority is protecting the U.S. from Ebola cases entering the country.
  • “The number one priority of our foreign policy is to protect the American people. We cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States.” — Public Health Official (02:30)
• Difference From Past Protocol: In all past outbreaks—including COVID and Ebola—Americans infected abroad were typically brought home and cared for in specialized facilities.
  • “It's frankly been bizarre to a lot of public health officials… that Americans would not be allowed to come home.” — Sabrina Siddiqui (04:24)
• Kenya’s Reaction & Legal Status:
  • Strong protests in Kenya, including from medical unions and courts, with a Kenyan high court putting a temporary hold on the plan (“Kenyan court will reconsider this case tomorrow…” — Siddiqui, 05:34).
  • “Is Kenya being reduced to a dumping site?” — Kenyan lawyer, quoted by Sabrina Siddiqui (06:31)
• Concerns Among Kenyans: Widespread perception that the U.S. is exporting risk. Kenyans question the lack of domestic Ebola cases in their own country and fear imported outbreaks.
  • “Why would you create a facility in my country and it doesn’t serve me, yet the same same facility is going to host people who are endangering my own life.” — Sabrina Siddiqui, relaying Kenyan sentiment (07:25)
• Confusion Over Rationale: The U.S. claims Kenya is “close but unaffected” and that quarantine would only last “a couple days” before evacuation to Europe if illness occurs, but concrete plans remain vague.
• Public Health Expert Critique:
  • U.S. has both a moral and medical responsibility to repatriate its citizens and use its state-of-the-art care facilities (“Right now, those [U.S. facilities] are sitting empty.” — Siddiqui, 09:59)
  • Mental health and family access should factor into quarantine location decisions.

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2. U.S. Public Health Policy and Political Shift

Timestamps: 09:01–14:55

• Break from Established Protocols:
  • Trump administration's approach is perceived as more about placating domestic fears than following established best public health practices—contradicting its earlier criticisms of COVID-era restrictions.
  • “The Trump administration has been willing to embrace these very aggressive quarantine and isolation measures, despite the fact that this administration is full of people at the highest levels of leadership who were so critical of what they saw as heavy handed social distancing…” — Sabrina Siddiqui (11:39)
• Similar Approach in Hantavirus Outbreak:
  • Tight restrictions, enforced quarantines, and 24/7 monitoring for American passengers returning from areas with outbreaks.
• Unclear Contingency Plans:
  • The administration appears to lack a plan B if Kenya refuses participation.
  • “It is not entirely clear if the Trump administration has a plan B. It just seems like this entire plan came together very quickly…” — Sabrina Siddiqui (13:38)
• International Diplomacy Issues:
  • European partners may react similarly to Kenya if asked to host Ebola-exposed Americans.

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3. Conspiracy Theories and Distrust in Eastern Congo

Timestamps: 18:10–26:02

• Nature of Ebola Conspiracies:
  • Deep suspicion in Congo that Ebola is a Western creation to harvest minerals or profit from aid.
  • “When you talk about a hoax, we basically saying Ebola does not exist. It's a lie. It's something that has been created to get our minerals.” — Rael Ambor (18:23)
• Impact on Health Workers:
  • Hostility and violence toward aid providers and medical staff.
  • Survivors of Ebola face severe stigma, social exclusion, and are sometimes believed to have made a pact with evil.
• Cultural Context:
  • Funerary customs conflict with containment measures (e.g., body retrieval and burial traditions vs. rapid burial protocols).
  • Distrust is compounded by systemic poverty, lack of internet/communication, and historical neglect by authorities.
• Spread of Disease Through Mistrust:
  • Fear and anger provoke attacks on hospitals and mass escapes of patients.
  • “In the process of the Rampara hospital being lit up, we had six patients escaped… next day in a different hospital, there’s 18 people also who, who escaped the hospital.” — Rael Ambor (22:37)
• Entrenched Distrust:
  • Even after prior Ebola outbreaks, distrust in health systems remains strong.
  • Greater reliance on traditional medicine and personal experience than institutional authority.
  • “There's been this distrust in the system before. And this is also what is also fueling the conspiracy theories around Ebola.” — Rael Ambor (24:09)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Kenyan outrage:
  • “Is Kenya being reduced to a dumping site?” — Kenyan legal group, via Sabrina Siddiqui (06:31)
  • “We are saying, hell, no. Take that facility to DRC. Take it to where it’s needed.” — Public Health Official, Kenya (07:09)
• On U.S. obligations & inconsistencies:
  • “I personally feel that the United States has a moral and ethical obligation to its citizens…” — U.S. Public Health Official (10:08)
  • “Right now, those [U.S.] treatment centers are sitting empty.” — Sabrina Siddiqui (09:59)
• On beliefs in DRC:
  • “They believe that when you go to an Ebola treatment center, you're not supposed to come out alive, you're supposed to be dead. These people who go ahead and believe that the people actually operating in these Ebola treatment centers are demons, like the devil.” — Rael Ambor (19:22)
• On consequences of distrust:
  • “In the process… we had six patients escaped… These are people who are going to go back to the communities who don't believe they are unwell. Yeah. And this is how this is spreading at the moment.” — Rael Ambor (22:37)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• The plan to send Ebola-exposed Americans to Kenya – 02:01–07:46
• Comparison to past U.S. outbreak responses – 03:45–04:23
• Kenyan public and legal resistance – 05:34–07:46
• U.S. public health expert critique and policy inconsistency – 09:01–13:25
• Transition to Ebola conspiracy theories in Congo – 18:10
• Personal accounts and cultural impacts of Ebola fear – 20:47–22:37
• Discussion of entrenched mistrust, poverty, and failed communication – 24:09–26:02

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Conclusion

This episode draws clear links between the U.S. administration’s controversial outbreak response, the complex cross-cultural politics of quarantine, and the devastating impact of distrust and conspiracy theories in actual outbreak areas. As the Trump administration’s plan hangs in legal limbo in Kenya, the spreading of conspiracy beliefs in Congo continues to fuel dangerous conditions on the ground, complicating efforts to stem the outbreak.

The episode underscores the importance of trust, open communication, and culturally sensitive health interventions in global outbreak response.

Transcript

[Noel King]

It's hundreds of Kenyans in the town of Nanyuki today protesting a plan by the Trump administration to send American citizens who've been exposed to Ebola in central Africa to Kenya instead of bringing them home. This Ebola outbreak started in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It's since spread to Uganda, but there are currently no confirmed cases in Kenya. And so Kenyans are asking why? Why send the Americans here?

[Rael Ambor]

I spoke to the head of the Kenya Doctors Union lobby group and he was like, why would we import something that is not here? Why should we make Kenya an epicenter and then add cases and have us deal with this today?

[Noel King]

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[Producer/Announcer]

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[Noel King]

The Wall Street Journal broke the story of the Trump administration's plan to send Americans who've been exposed to Ebola to Kenya instead of letting them come home. WSJ National Politics reporter Sabrina Siddiqui what is the plan?

[Sabrina Siddiqui]

So what the administration has been trying to do is set up a quarantine facility in Kenya at an Air Force base where they would essentially house Americans who have been exposed to Ebola and anyone who also tests positive.

[Public Health Official]

The number one priority of our foreign policy is to protect the American people. We cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States.

[Sabrina Siddiqui]

And they're kind of describing it as somewhat of a tent hospital. But there are various plans underway for also adding potentially, if needed, isolation units and biocontainment units. That is, of course, if there are people who truly get sick or need further care. But even then, I think what they see this as is an opportunity to have a place for Americans to quarantine while they're evaluated. And they have deployed public health officers from the United States to assist with these efforts. And one thing that they have also said is that if Americans test positive, they would only perhaps stay at this facility for a couple days before being sent to another country. And they're looking at facilities in Europe that could potentially accommodate Americans if they were to truly get sick.

[Noel King]

Okay, so what the US Is saying is, we don't want you coming back into the U.S. you look at the reaction to this here at home, and there's a lot of shock. Ebola outbreaks have happened before. This is a very dangerous, dangerous virus. How does the US Usually handle this when our citizens are affected?

[Sabrina Siddiqui]

That's actually been very striking about the administration's response to this particular outbreak, because in previous outbreaks, Americans who had been exposed to Ebola or who had tested positive were allowed to return home, and they were monitored and cared for at quarantine facilities here in the United States. Two Americans infected with Ebola are expected

[Noel King]

back in the US for treatment. For the first time in history, doctors right here in the United States will

[Rael Ambor]

battle the Ebola virus.

[Sabrina Siddiqui]

And it's been called a miracle.

[Noel King]

Doctors say two American missionary workers stricken with Ebola are cured.

[Sabrina Siddiqui]

We're going to have new monitoring and

[Noel King]

movement guidance that is sensible, based in

[Sabrina Siddiqui]

science, and tailored to the unique circumstances of each health worker that may be returning from one of these countries after they have provided the kind of help that they need. And we do have biocontainment units as well. During this recent hantavirus outbreak, American passengers who were aboard the cruise ship where that outbreak occurred have been quarantining at one of those biocontainment units in Nebraska. So it's frankly been bizarre to a lot of public health officials I've spoken with and epidemiologists that Americans would not be allowed to come home. And it just appears to be the case that the Trump administration is taking a very hard line against letting anyone who is known to have Ebola to be allowed back here in the United States, because what they're saying is that they do not want any Ebola cases to exist in the United States during this outbreak.

[Public Health Official]

Multiple agencies involved here are also very involved in tracking people just to make sure that nobody comes into this country that has Ebola and creates a problem for us.

[Noel King]

Okay, so the plan is send Americans to Kenya and what is the status of that plan?

[Sabrina Siddiqui]

It's interesting because the Trump administration announced that the US And Kenya had reached an agreement to stand up this quarantine facility for Americans in Kenya. And then a Kenyan high court put a temporary hold on the Trump administration's plan to set up that facility. So right now, the plan is very much in limbo, and the expectation is that the Kenyan court will reconsider this case tomorrow. But as of now, it's not clear if the plan is even going to move forward.

[Noel King]

Okay. And I imagine that's in part because Kenya feels like Kenya has a say in this. And it may be that Kenyan authorities have agreed to something, but Kenyan people feel differently. And again, I'm. You know, we're keeping in mind that Ebola is a very, very dangerous virus. How did people in Kenya respond when they were told the United States wants to send its citizens to you?

[Sabrina Siddiqui]

That's precisely what I think the issue is here.

[Noel King]

Ah.

[Sabrina Siddiqui]

One of the lawyers who is part of the legal group that is arguing this case said, and I quote, is Kenya being reduced to a dumping site?

[Rael Ambor]

Wow.

[Sabrina Siddiqui]

And I think that really captures the mood of many Kenyans who learned about this plan through news reports and were wondering why, and frankly, critical of their government for agreeing to allow Americans who had been exposed to Ebola to be rerouted to Kenya when there are no known or suspected cases of Ebola in Kenya.

[Public Health Official]

How is it that the Americans say they don't want to touch this thing, they want to stay away from it, yet we are the ones who think we are Wakanda, that we are going to step up and fight Ebola. We are saying, hell, no. Take that facility to drc. Take it to where it's needed.

[Rael Ambor]

Why would you create a facility in

[Sabrina Siddiqui]

my country and it doesn't serve me yet the same same facility is going to host people who are endangering my own life. And there are obviously a lot of concerns, including from medical groups in Kenya, that there could perhaps be an outbreak in Kenya that stems from bringing Americans to the country who've been exposed to the virus.

[Noel King]

Does anyone know why Kenya?

[Sabrina Siddiqui]

The administration said that they were looking for somewhere in the region that is unaffected by the outbreak, where they don't believe there is as high risk of spread, and that is not too far so that people could get there quickly. Obviously, there are also just politics involved, and it seems like they were able to come to some kind of agreement with the government, even if it's been halted by the courts. And I also think that, again, this is temporary for people who actually get sick. So it doesn't even look like it was necessarily a long term plan in terms of how they plan to actually use this facility. Because at the same time that they're saying Americans can quarantine in Kenya, they also said that anyone who truly get sick would be evacuated to a tertiary care center and that they're currently talking to partners in Europe to try and identify where sick patients can be taken. But again, these are just some of the questions that a lot of people have around the administration's plans, which they haven't been terribly forthcoming about and which again have drawn criticism not just from people in Kenya, but also from public health experts here at home who simply do not understand why they would not allow Americans to return to their home country.

[Noel King]

Let me ask you what you've been hearing from public health experts because there is, from the non expert's point of view, there's kind of a knee jerk sense in this. It's Ebola's dangerous. Keep people where they are or keep people elsewhere so that they don't bring Ebola into the United States. You said public health experts say this does not make sense. Why doesn't it make sense? What do they tell you?

[Sabrina Siddiqui]

Well, I think there are a couple things that are at play. One is that public health experts do say that it is the responsibility of the United States government to take care of its own people and to allow them to return home so that they could receive the highest quality of care. And that they have these state of the art facilities specifically designed for outbreaks and viruses like Ebola.

[Noel King]

We built and sustained a system of

[Sabrina Siddiqui]

specialized treatment centers all around the United States that are capable of managing patients exactly like this. Right now, those are sitting empty.

[Public Health Official]

I personally feel that the United States has a moral and ethical obligation to its citizens, that if they're going to be abroad, especially helping out people during this global health outbreak, that we should be taking care of our own.

[Sabrina Siddiqui]

I also think that there is the component of mental health and that in addition to just needing to receive the appropriate care, that people should have access to their support system, that they should be allowed to be in closer proximity to their families if they were to get sick. And people see that as a moral responsibility that the United States has to afford Americans that opportunity. There's also just the fact that in previous outbreaks, Americans were brought home. And the Trump administration has not provided a medical rationale for why they're so opposed to Americans coming back home, other than saying that time is of the Essence, when someone has Ebola. Well, time was also of the essence in prior outbreaks, and the US did not stop Americans from returning home.

[Noel King]

Yeah, they're sort of acting like normies would act. Normies who are worried and say, don't get this near me. Which is not the same way historically that medical professionals act. Okay, so you've been covering the Hantavirus outbreak as well. And I wonder whether you're seeing a pattern here or a trend here in the way this administration is responding to these public health crises, where the public is inclined to freak out a bit and public health experts might have a different idea of what needs to happen.

[Sabrina Siddiqui]

Well, here's what's really fascinating about covering the Hantavirus outbreak as well as the Ebola outbreak. The Trump administration has been willing to embrace these very aggressive quarantine and isolation measures, despite the fact that this administration is full of people at the highest levels of leadership who were so critical of what they saw as heavy handed social distancing and isolation guidelines during the COVID 19 pandemic. Tonight, fresh anger rippling across the country. I need my job. I need to work from coast to

[Producer/Announcer]

coast, thousands of people frustrated. Whether it's masks, whether it is statements of social distancing, statements like the things about travel restrictions.

[Noel King]

What are we hoping to accomplish with this?

[Sabrina Siddiqui]

And they're going even further. There are a couple passengers who wanted to leave the Nebraska facility where those who've been exposed to hantavirus have been quarantining. And the acting director of the cdc, Jay Bhattacharya, signed an order forcing them to stay there. And now, as those passengers are reaching the end of their quarantine period, these are those who are exposed to hantavirus who have been asymptomatic and do not have hantavirus as they're now returning to their home states. The Trump administration is essentially insisting on 247 monitoring and not allowing them to leave their homes. So oddly enough, it's a very heavy handed way that the Trump administration has responded to these outbreaks. And even though in some ways they were the ones who politically used criticisms of public health institutions and of the scientific community during COVID as a way to appeal to voters who were frustrated by these exact kinds of guidelines and rules during that pandemic.

[Noel King]

All right, so we are waiting on the Kenyan court to make a decision on Tuesday. What, what are the stakes here? What happens if Kenya says no, President Trump, we're just not going to allow this?

[Sabrina Siddiqui]

Well, that's actually going to be a really interesting moment if it comes to pass, because it is not entirely clear if the Trump administration has a plan B. It just seems like this entire plan came together very quickly. Even the public health officers who were deployed to Kenya when they were called upon for this assignment, they only received about three days training. And that's something that some public health officials said simply isn't enough for people who are going to go and try to staff a facility where you have this rare strain of a deadly virus. And so when the Trump administration is talking about whether or not they would be able to send Americans to other facilities in Europe, they still haven't identified where those care centers would be, which just signals that they haven't really thought through what would happen if they are not allowed to stand up this facility in Kenya. And I suspect that, that while they're still negotiating with the Europeans, it's very likely that people in Europe would have the same reaction as those in Kenya. Why are you sending potentially sick Americans here rather than allowing them to return home?

[Noel King]

That was the Wall Street Journal's Sabrina Siddiqui. Coming up next, how conspiracy theories about Ebola have made it harder to fight the spread in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We're going to talk to a reporter in Kenya. Support for Today Explained comes from Vanta. What's one thing in business, Vanta asks, that's spreading as fast as AI? AI risk, says Vanta. Every new tool that your team signs up for, every vendor that turns on AI features, every new integration has the potential to create a risky situation for your company. And most security programs were not built for AI's pace of growth. Enter Vanta. Vanta is the leading agentic trust platform used by over 16,000 fast moving companies, companies such as Ramp, Cursor and Harvey to ensure they're always audit ready. And now Vanta is helping companies like yours. Watch for the risks that show up between those audits across your vendors, your AI tools, your whole environment. The Vana agent works like a 24.7grc engineer in the background finding issues, drafting fixes, cutting vendor assessment time by up to 50%. Whether you're a fast growing startup or a global enterprise, Vanta is here to help you automate your security and compliance and earn improve trust. You can get started [e-mail] explained. That's V A N T A dot com explained.

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We're back with Rael Ambor. She's a reporter with the Washington Post in Nairobi. She's been writing about among other things Ebola conspiracy theories. I asked Rael why this has become such an issue in this outbreak.

[Rael Ambor]

Whenever there's a crisis then people try to find reason for it and there's always populations that are not so informed. There's always going to be resistances, quarters of resistance. We saw that during COVID also when people we had anti vaxxers who were like this thing is not good for the system. This is population control for Africa and all that. So this was also bound to happen. And this is not really the first time that we are having people saying that this disease is a hoax. When you talk about a ho we basically saying Ebola does not exist. It's a lie. It's something that has been created to get our minerals. It is something that has been created to harvest people in the hospitals and kill them and so they can take away our minerals.

[Noel King]

So Congo is a very mineral rich country.

[Rael Ambor]

Exactly. And especially the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The eastern part of the country is rich in cogold, cobalt, this specific village, mgpwali, where the outbreak has occ, is a gold mining region. And most of the people actually I spoke to are telling me this is where it started. One of the first cases was in a health center in mongolu. These are really, really poor communities. There's no running water, there's no proper healthcare system. The healthcare system was pretty dependent on aid, on foreign aid. And so one of the things that people are saying, number one, this is a hoax. Number two, what I've seen from my reporting is that they're saying that this nonprofit workers, they have brought this disease to get more money. That's why you're seeing. That's why you're seeing there were attacks, there's hostility towards health workers. I interviewed someone who got Ebola in 2018 during that outbreak. And this person, there's so much stigma that everyone ran away from them. When he got better after a couple of weeks, he went home and he found his family wasn't there. Because they believe that when you go to an ebola treatment center, you're not supposed to come out alive, you're supposed to be dead. These people who go ahead and believe that the people actually operating in these ebola treatment centers are demons, like the devil. And so.

[Noel King]

And the reason for that, I imagine, is ebola is a very deadly disease. So if you go into a health center, there is a chance you're not coming out. People are seeing that, and they're thinking that means you go into an ebola center and you don't come out because the people there don't want you to come out.

[Rael Ambor]

Yeah. I imagine you're in a village deep inside isan Congo, and one morning you wake up and there's blood coming out of your mouth and blood coming out of your nose. And this is something that people have not seen before. And within days, this is happening to your brother and your s. And just previous in a few days earlier, you're okay. So this, the way ebola manifests itself, I think, also has people really scared. You're looking at this, the hemorrhagic manifestations, you know, the fever, the headache, the vomiting, you know, and this brings so much fear. So we reported on a story in rampara where there's a young man who was pretty popular, was a football player. He sang in his local church. And one day he falls sick, and he's being treated at home, and then he's rushed to the hospital. And when he gets to the hospital, he dies just hours after getting to the hospital. So quickly, the Family is told that this person has passed on and the body was being held. And as with Ebola, there's procedures in which these bodies are interred and they're trying to give them dignified send offs. And so the people are really outraged because in the culture of the place, the bodies, when someone dies, a body is brought home. They stay one, two days feasting and eating and bury the bodies like. But with Ebola, this is impossible. So people were really outraged and they stormed, their friends and family, they stormed into this Rampara hospital and they burnt the tents. And one of. And there was a body that there was someone else in the tent who had just passed on of Ebola, that body was also burnt. And in the process we had six patients fled. So that means these people also did not want to be held in that center. They did not want to be treated in that center. So in the process of the Rampara hospital being lit up, we had six patients escaped. And the next day in a different hospital, there's 18 people also who, who escaped the hospital. So these are people who are going to go back to the communities who don't believe they are unwell. Yeah. And this is how this is spreading at the moment.

[Noel King]

Ebola is a terrifying illness. This is not the first time though, that there have been outbreaks in this part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. If there have been outbreaks in the past and people have lived through them and understood them in the past, why do you think people's minds are still open to conspiracies? Why is the instinct not to say, okay, we dealt with this five years ago or eight years ago or 10 years ago, and here's how it played out and we should trust health workers. Like if it's, if it's not the first rodeo, why are people assuming that health care workers are out to get them?

[Rael Ambor]

I mean, because it's simply just distrust. When people distrust the systems, when people distrust their leaders, when people distrust. And whenever a supernatural or maybe some different phenomena occurs, there's tend to be a certain crop of people who do not believe that is happening. But then it's usually deeper, entrenched. If the other factors are involved, we, we have people who are used to being by themselves, people who are self reliance, who are used to having their own solutions to their own problems where they're unwell, they try to find their own solutions. Hubs, they look for the herbalists, traditional African medicine. And when it gets worse is when they go to the hospital. So there's been this distrust in the system before. And this is also what is also fueling the conspiracy theories around Ebola. And of course, there's extreme poverty in these areas. These are deep villages, people who do not have access to the Internet, people who do not have access to, I mean, like I said earlier, running water. These are people who sort of quote, unquote, live in their own ecosystems, in their own world. So it's pretty hard to come outside and relate to health workers or aid workers in ways that we do with them. And that's why I think it's really important to have people, first responders should be people from these communities so that they can reach out to them in ways that they can connect with them. And these a belief in them and they trust them. So that is also really important. There's going to be a lot of work needed to get this under control.

[Noel King]

Rael Ambor is a reporter with the Washington Post in Nairobi. Avishai Artsy and Dustin Desoto produced today's show and Amina El Saadi edited. David Tadashore and Patrick Daniel Boyd engineered and Gabriel Donatov check the facts. I'm Noel King. It's Today Explained.

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