How Trump’s policy is leaving yet another nation dealing with deadly issue

 For decades, Washington treated a major Ebola outbreak overseas as a problem that could eventually arrive on America’s doorstep. The answer was usually straightforward: send expertise, money and medical resources toward the virus before the virus had a chance to travel the other way.

Donald Trump’s administration has placed far more emphasis on keeping the door shut.

That shift has produced an extraordinary situation during Congo’s rapidly spreading Ebola epidemic. American medical workers exposed to the virus have been sent to other countries rather than brought home, while US volunteers heading into the outbreak now face the prospect of spending three weeks in quarantine before returning.

Doctors and aid organizations say those measures are making it harder to persuade desperately needed medical workers to go.

More than 4,000 people have already died, according to Reuters.