A Kenyan court blocked a U.S. plan to build an Ebola quarantine facility on its soil. The facility was for Americans. The infrastructure that would have made it unnecessary was eliminated by USAID cuts earlier this year.
The WHO is tracking 600 Ebola cases and 139 deaths, with no vaccine deployable for nine months. The global health infrastructure designed to prevent exactly this scenario was dismantled by U.S. foreign aid cuts earlier this year.
The current Ebola outbreak involves a rare strain with no approved vaccine, spreading through conflict-torn eastern DRC and into Uganda. Public health experts warn it could rival 2014's catastrophic surge — and the global response infrastructure that might have stopped it was dismantled earlier this