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"A US travel ban for people coming from the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Uganda or South Sudan in response to the Ebola outbreak could make the
situation worse, critics have said.
The outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern on
Sunday and continues to spread, with a new case reported in the DRC’s South
Kivu province, an area under the control of armed rebel groups.
The American travel ban, which applies to non-US passport holders who have been
in any of the three countries in the past 21 days, has caused disruption to the
DRC men’s football team’s World Cup preparations. It also caused a flight to
Detroit to be diverted to Canada on Wednesday because a traveller from the DRC
was onboard.
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said that while
it “fully recognises the sovereign responsibility of every government to
protect the health and security of its people … generalised travel restrictions
and border closures are not the solution to outbreaks”.
The body said: “Such measures can create fear, damage economies, discourage
transparency, complicate humanitarian and health operations, and divert
movement toward informal and unmonitored routes – potentially increasing public
health risks rather than reducing them.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
