{"id":90396,"date":"2026-05-23T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/90396\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T07:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:49:08","slug":"us-doctor-peter-stafford-with-ebola-in-berlin-hospital-not-critically-ill-family-tests-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/90396\/","title":{"rendered":"US doctor Peter Stafford with Ebola in Berlin hospital not critically ill, family tests negative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US citizen <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/18\/world-news\/american-doctor-confirmed-to-have-ebola-as-congo-outbreak-surpasses-300-suspected-cases\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who contracted Ebola<\/a> in the Democratic Republic of \u200bCongo, where an outbreak of a rare \u200cstrain has killed over 130 people, is not critically ill and his wife and four children have <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/ontario-ebola-british-columbia-hantavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tested negative<\/a>, the \u200bBerlin hospital where the family is being treated \u200bsaid on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause the course of the \u2060illness can change, he remains under close observation and \u200bis receiving treatment,\u201d Charite university hospital said in a \u200bstatement. <\/p>\n<p>The \u200cpatient was \u2060identified by the Serge Christian mission organization as medical missionary Dr. Peter Stafford. graceatthefray\/instagram<\/p>\n<p>Two children of an American Ebola patient look through a window at their father in the isolation ward at the Charite Hospital in Berlin, Germany, May 21, 2026. via REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is being cared for in the high-security area of the specialized isolation unit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The patient\u2019s wife and four children \u201care currently \u200basymptomatic and quarantined in a separate part of \u200bthe unit \u2013 an initial PCR test detected no <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/22\/us-news\/ex-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-chief-robert-redfield-fears-ebola-outbreak-is-going-to-become-very-significant-pandemic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ebola virus infection<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u200cpatient, \u2060identified by the Serge Christian mission organization as medical missionary Dr. Peter Stafford, contracted Ebola while treating patients in the DRC, where he had been living \u200bwith his family.<\/p>\n<p>Congolese civilians walk near the burning Ebola treatment center in Rwampara General Hospital in Rwampara outside Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 21, 2026.  REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Former head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Robert Redfield said the risk of Ebola spreading is high at the national and regional levels but low at the global level. NewsNation \/ YouTube<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bWhite House \u2060said Stafford and his family had been brought to Germany because it is \u200b12 hours closer to the DRC than \u200bthe \u2060United States.<\/p>\n<p>Charite said in its statement that the patient room had been made as child-friendly as possible, adding \u2060that \u200bthe children were able to \u200bsee their father \u201cthrough a glass partition, and family members can communicate via \u200ban intercom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A US citizen who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of \u200bCongo, where an outbreak of a rare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,47685,190,76,2579,1161],"class_list":["post-90396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-ebola","tag-germany","tag-united-states","tag-us-news","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116622797229856699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90396","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=90396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}