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Canadian aid workers are being forced out of critical Ebola response missions in the DRC due to a mandatory three-week quarantine, a policy that’s crippling the global fight against the fastest-growing and deadliest Ebola outbreak in history. With WHO sounding the alarm and humanitarian groups like Doctors Without Borders reporting at least eleven experienced Canadians pulled from deployments, the debate is heating up: are these travel restrictions based on science—or fear? Experts argue Ebola isn’t easily transmissible and that the rules contradict WHO guidelines, while the government prepares to decide whether to extend them before they expire next week. Canada’s financial pledges feel inadequate to many, who say the country could and should do more to support global health.

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