Officials in the White House denied delaying the evacuation of an American doctor who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after a report claimed officials were reluctant to bring him back to the United States.
After Dr. Peter Stafford, an American physician working in the DRC with a nonprofit Christian ministry, tested positive for Ebola, officials from the CDC and Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response reportedly advocated to send him to a facility in the U.S. with special biocontainment units.
