As the Bundibugyo Ebola epidemic spreads in Central Africa, the US government did not respond by mobilizing medical resources, but by invoking Title 42, a public health law it has previously used as an instrument of immigration control and, now, as a foreign policy tool. Marking a radical break with all previous Ebola responses, Washington refuses to repatriate exposed US citizens to receive advanced biological containment care on its own soil.
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As the Bundibugyo Ebola epidemic spreads in Central Africa, the US government did not respond by mobilizing medical resources, but by invoking Title 42, a public health law it has previously used as an instrument of immigration control and, now, as a foreign policy tool. Marking a radical break with all previous Ebola responses, Washington refuses to repatriate exposed US citizens to receive advanced biological containment care on its own soil.