{"id":88319,"date":"2026-05-21T10:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/88319\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T10:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:16:17","slug":"family-of-us-ebola-patient-admitted-to-berlin-isolation-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/88319\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of US Ebola patient admitted to Berlin isolation ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BERLIN, May 21 (Reuters) &#8211; The family of a U.S. citizen who contracted Ebola in the \u200cDemocratic Republic of Congo, where an outbreak of \u200ca rare strain of the virus has killed over 130 people, \u200bhas been admitted to an isolation ward at the Berlin hospital where he is being treated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The German health ministry said in a statement on Thursday that \u200cthe wife and four \u2060children of the patient &#8220;were brought to Germany on a special flight and are considered \u2060close contacts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The ministry did not say whether any of the family members were infected with Ebola or \u200bshowing symptoms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The \u200bpatient, identified by the \u200bSerge Christian mission organization \u200cas medical missionary Dr. Peter Stafford, is in stable condition, according to the U.S. CDC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stafford contracted Ebola while treating patients in the DRC, where he had been living with his family, according to Serge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Berlin&#8217;s Charite \u200chospital, where Stafford is being \u200btreated, was chosen for his \u200bcare because Germany is \u200b12 hours closer to the DRC \u200cthan the United States, the \u200bWhite House has \u200bsaid, denying a Washington Post report that it resisted allowing Stafford to return to the United \u200bStates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The German \u200chealth ministry did not comment on the reason \u200bthe patient was admitted there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Friederike \u200bHeine, editing by Kirsti Knolle)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN, May 21 (Reuters) &#8211; The family of a U.S. citizen who contracted Ebola in the \u200cDemocratic Republic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,190,46445,46946,46945],"class_list":["post-88319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-germany","tag-health-ministry","tag-isolation-ward","tag-peter-stafford"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116612050798069961","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}