NAIROBI, June 7 -- Two weeks after Kenya recorded its first fatal protest in years, the government in Nairobi is caught between two pressures it did not invite: a disease it does not have, and an alliance it cannot easily refuse.

At least two people died, and one was injured when demonstrations turned violent in Nanyuki, a central Kenyan town near Laikipia Air Base, where the United States has been pushing to establish a 50-bed Ebola quarantine facility for American citizens who contract the virus while working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kenya has recorded zero cases of the disease. The Bundibugyo virus, which the WHO declared a public health emergency of international concern on May 16, remains concentrated in DRC's Ituri ...