Opinion | Ebola outbreaks are always challenging. The Trump administration made the job harder.

News recently broke that the United States is building a quarantine and treatment center in Kenya to send U.S. healthcare workers to, rather than bring them back to the U.S. treatment centers that have been used successfully in prior outbreaks. The U.S. government also issued travel bans to deny entry to individuals who were recently in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda or South Sudan despite objections from the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization that travel bans are an ineffective response.

Opinion | Ebola outbreaks are always challenging. The Trump administration made the job harder.. News recently broke that the United States is building a quarantine and treatment center in Kenya to send U.S. healthcare workers to, rather than bring them back to the U.S. treatment centers that have been used successfully in prior outbreaks. The U.S. government also issued travel bans to deny entry to individuals who were recently in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda or South Sudan despite objections from the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization that travel bans are an ineffective response. “We cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States,” affirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio. This makes no sense. The current Ebola outbreak — more specifically, the Bundibu...