US Ebola Patient Reaches Germany as Washington Bars DRC Travelers for 21 Days
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Updated · The Guardian · Jul 14
US Ebola Patient Reaches Germany as Washington Bars DRC Travelers for 21 Days
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jul 14
Summary
Frankfurt University Hospital received a US Ebola patient overnight after Germany agreed to treat the man, a humanitarian worker in his 60s infected in Bunia, eastern Congo.
Germany said US authorities sought its Ebola expertise and the shorter flight from the DRC, adding the patient poses no danger to the public or other hospital patients.
The Trump administration separately put Americans in or recently out of the DRC on a Title 49 do-not-board list, requiring 21 days in a third country before commercial travel to the US.
About two dozen Americans were due to fly to the US on Tuesday after travel linked to the DRC, while the State Department said it would support those affected during the wait.
The DRC's 17th Ebola outbreak, declared in mid-May, involves the Bundibugyo strain with no vaccine or cure and has caused more than 1,900 confirmed cases and over 700 deaths.