A US national who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has arrived in Germany for treatment, the health ministry in Berlin said on Monday, weeks after another American infected with Ebola in the DRC was treated in Berlin
Meanwhile, the Trump administration on Monday said it was blocking American citizens in the DRC from traveling to the US on commercial flights, Reuters reported, citing a White House official.
The new American patient landed in Frankfurt overnight and was transferred to the city’s university hospital, according to the German health ministry.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said the man was a “humanitarian worker” who had been in Bunia, the capital of the north-eastern Ituri province of the DRC.
Ituri is the center of an Ebola outbreak that the DRC declared in mid-May – its 17th.
The WHO had provided the infected man with “clinical care and close monitoring”, The WHO director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on X.
“The patient has been safely transferred to Germany for continued follow-up care,” he added.
An official working for the Christian aid group Samaritan’s Purse confirmed to Reuters that the patient, in his 60s, was a full-time employee of the organization working as a warehouse manager in the DRC.
The DRC’s ongoing outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo strain of the virus – for which there is no vaccine or cure.
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