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This is what happens when you defund Ebola prevention

The terrifyingly fast Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda is already the third-worst ever recorded. | Michel Lunanga/Getty Images Shortly after brandishing his infamous chainsaw on a conservative conference stage last February, Elon Musk attended a Cabinet meeting where, giggling slyly, he admitted to having “accidentally canceled” Ebola prevention in his haste to obliterate the US Agency for International Development (USAID). “We restored the Ebola prevention immediately,” he added coolly at the time, “and there was no interruption.” That claim has since...