The U.S. government’s plan for managing Americans who might have been exposed to the Ebola virus in the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda is to triage them in a newly built facility in Kenya. But a Kenyan high court blocked the planned opening of the facility, which was scheduled for May 29. The court order was in response to a petition filed by a Kenyan civil society group questioning the constitutionality of the facility, according to the New York Times . Local health groups there have also opposed the facility, since it would not provide care to Kenyans but focus only on American citizens. In a press briefing on May 28—before the opening of the facility was blocked—senior White House officials said the U.S. government had been working with Kenyan officials to establish the facility, located at Laikipia air base.…