A quarantine too far

An image provided by Vantor shows tents erected and vehicles at a new field hospital at Kenya’s Laikipia Air Base in Laikipia County, Kenya. — Vantor via The New York Times

THE American plan to open an Ebola quarantine facility in Kenya was meant to help contain the outbreak by isolating American patients exposed to the virus.

Instead, it caused an outbreak of violence and political rancour, with hundreds of Kenyans taking to the streets in protest.