White House Protester

White House Protester

National Case of "Fearbola." The national poll also suggested that 2/3 of the American public supported travel restrictions on people entering the U.S. from the Ebola-stricken countries. CDC, along with other federal agencies, rejected travel bans, saying such a move would make it more difficult to slow the outbreak at its source, hampering the movement of supplies and aid workers, and ultimately putting the world more at risk. Here a protestor wearing a hazmat suit with "CDC" hand drawn on the back stands in front of The White House on October 17, 2014, demanding that flights from West Africa to the U.S. be banned.

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