Trump Just Made America More Vulnerable to Ebola—Here’s How

America's Ebola shield is gone.

On 12 May 2018 in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a health worker at Bikoro Hospital, the epicenter of the latest Ebola outbreak in the DRC. (Credit: WHO)

Ebola is in Kampala.

Ugandan authorities yesterday confirmed the death of a healthcare worker—a nurse—from Ebola. A city of over 4 million is now at the center of an outbreak. The fact that a healthcare worker was affected suggests that the virus is already spreading in high-risk settings.

Under normal circumstances, there would be no need to panic. Since the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, local health officials in Africa and the international community have become skilled at containing outbreaks before they spread out of control. There have been at least eight separate outbreaks in the region, but all have been contained. None spread internationally, least of all to the United States.

At the center of these efforts to stop the international spread of Ebola are the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control an…