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The Trump administration has implemented some of the United States’ most stringent travel restrictions for infectious disease ever.
Though most countries are following the World Health Organization's advice on travel bans, the U.S. is far from alone in ignoring it. | AFP via Getty Images
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.
