Jacob Sullum on Ebola and the CDC’s Dangerous Mission Drift

Before Tom
Frieden became director of the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention in 2009, his two main nemeses were
tuberculosis and smoking. Although both are commonly described as
threats to “public health,” says Jacob Sullum, they differ in ways
that may help explain the CDC’s stumbling, alarmingly amateurish
response to Ebola in the United States.

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