In his book, self-described USAID ‘whistleblower’ talks about the agency and Ebola

Photo: Service member sprays insecticide around the area where a health clinic was built in Gbediah, Liberia, Dec. 15, 2014. This control measure is used by the preventative medicine team to protect the U.S. and Liberian service members building the facility from various diseases, viruses and pathogens that insects carry here. […] Photo credit: U.S. Army photo via DVIDS. Public Domain. Article by Fatma Tanis. NPR – June 8, 2026.

In March 2025, Nicholas Enrich was the top U.S. official for global health when two major events were happening at the same time: The Trump administration was dismantling USAID, and an Ebola outbreak was spreading in Uganda. It was Enrich’s job to manage the U.S. response. He says he was stymied at every turn. “I was told by one of the political appointees, who was the head of the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, that Ebola is a scam,” Enrich says. […]

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