Did Trump's foreign aid cuts fuel the Ebola outbreak?
This episode of NPR's Shortwave investigates the rapid escalation of the third-largest Ebola outbreak in history, centered in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with over 1,000 confirmed cases and 250 deaths—though the true toll is likely higher. The delay in detection and response,
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