Ebola response puts Trump on collision course with global health body

Photo: Military medical team trains for potential Ebola crisis, Oct. 2014. […] Photo credit: U.S. DoD photo by Army Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone C. Marshall Jr. via DVIDS. Public Domain. Article by Sophie Gardner and Carmen Paun. Politico – May 30, 2026.

Donald Trump and the World Health Organization are teed up for another clash over infectious disease travel bans. Trump ignored the WHO’s advice, and its criticism of travel restrictions, when he closed the U.S. border to foreigners who’d recently been in China at the outset of the Covid pandemic, and he’s ignoring the U.N. agency again now, at the outset of what is already one of the worst Ebola outbreaks ever, by barring most travelers from the affected countries. […]

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