DR Congo Team Arrives in Houston for June 17 World Cup Match as Ebola Outbreak Looms
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Updated · POLITICO · Jun 12
DR Congo Team Arrives in Houston for June 17 World Cup Match as Ebola Outbreak Looms
3 articles · Updated · POLITICO · Jun 12
Summary
Houston received the Democratic Republic of Congo’s national soccer team on Thursday ahead of its June 17 World Cup match against Portugal, with acting CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya and Port Health staff greeting the squad.
The arrival carries added health scrutiny because DR Congo is at the center of an Ebola outbreak that experts fear could become the largest on record.
The team had canceled a training-camp segment planned for Kinshasa last month, suggesting players have not recently been in the Congolese capital.
U.S. host cities have already expanded disease safeguards for the World Cup, including wastewater monitoring and hospital-capacity simulations, while Washington last month imposed travel restrictions on some noncitizens recently in DR Congo, Uganda and South Sudan.