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US Plans To Dump Its Ebola Patients In Kenya
In a highly controversial directive that critics say is a sign of medical colonialism, the US is planning to dump its Ebola patients in Kenya rather than fly them back home to the US for world-class treatment.
As a rare Bundibugyo Ebola strain spreads through the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, the White House is rapidly building an offshore quarantine centre. Rather than utilising America’s own elite, taxpayer-funded biocontainment infrastructure, the US is externalising its biological risk onto African soil – a move critics call a textbook example of medical colonialism.
The State Department claims this avoids dangerous medical evacuations to the West. But with Africa effectively being treated as a containment zone for Western liabilities, public health experts are horrified.
Epidemiologist Dr Craig Spencer called the isolation policy a severe “moral abdication” of the US government’s obligation to its own people.
Nonetheless, a Kenyan court has ordered the temporary suspension of US plans.
Still, while Washington aggressively shields its own borders by outsourcing its bio-risk, an African nation is left to bear the burden of a Western emergency.
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Ohenenana1 Comment-
“temporary suspension..”, oh Abibiman
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