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CDC director planning to travel to DRC as country battles Ebola outbreak

CDC Director Robert Redfield is expected to travel next week to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a rare trip to the country by a U.S. official, as it battles…
Source: David Goldman/AP

Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is expected to travel next week to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a rare trip to the country by a U.S. official as it battles what is now the second largest Ebola outbreak on record.

Redfield will make the

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