Second American Ebola Patient Evacuated to Germany as US Declines Direct Treatment

US citizen infected with Ebola virus while working in humanitarian capacity in DR Congo, requiring emergency medical evacuation.

When an American humanitarian worker in the Democratic Republic of Congo became the second U.S. citizen to contract Ebola in the current outbreak, the response followed a now-familiar path: evacuation not homeward, but to Germany. The choice quietly illuminates the gap between a nation's reach — its citizens scattered across the world's most dangerous places in service of others — and its apparent readiness, or willingness, to receive them back when they fall ill. In the architecture of international crisis response, the question of where a country sends its sick says something about what it b

Second American Ebola Patient Evacuated to Germany as US Declines Direct Treatment

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