{"id":20383,"date":"2026-05-22T10:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/20383\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:46:08","slug":"us-ebola-patient-in-berlin-hospital-not-critically-ill-family-tests-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/20383\/","title":{"rendered":"US Ebola Patient in Berlin Hospital Not Critically Ill, Family Tests Negative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, May 22 (Reuters) &#8211; A U.S. \u2060citizen \u2060who contracted Ebola \u2060in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where \u200ban outbreak of a rare strain has killed over 130 \u200cpeople, is not critically \u200cill and his wife and four children \u2060have tested \u2060negative, the Berlin hospital where the family is \u200bbeing treated said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because the course of the illness can change, he remains under close observation and is \u200breceiving treatment,&#8221; Charite university hospital said in a statement. &#8220;He \u2060is \u2060being cared for in \u2060the \u200bhigh-security area of the specialized isolation unit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The patient&#8217;s wife and \u200bfour children &#8220;are \u2060currently asymptomatic and quarantined in a separate part of the unit &#8211; an initial PCR test detected no Ebola virus infection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The patient, identified by the Serge Christian \u2060mission organization as medical missionary Dr. Peter Stafford, contracted Ebola \u2060while treating patients in the DRC, where he had been living with his family.<\/p>\n<p>The White House said Stafford and his family had been brought to Germany because it is 12 hours closer to the DRC than the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Charite said in its statement that the patient \u2060room had been made as child-friendly as possible, adding that the children were able to see their father &#8220;through a glass partition, and family members \u200bcan communicate via an intercom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Friederike Heine; \u200bediting by Matthias Williams)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Photos You Should See \u2013 April 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779446768_805_april-28-pyss-w01.jpg\" alt=\"Dancers rehearse before an audition for the Radio City Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall in New York, on Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo\/Yuki Iwamura)\" class=\"Image__PictureImage-sc-412cjc-1 bBgODV Image-sc-412cjc-2 SlideshowEmbed__Picture-fkpjfn-0 kQDDcT bUlaJL\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN, May 22 (Reuters) &#8211; A U.S. \u2060citizen \u2060who contracted Ebola \u2060in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4202,18,982,23317,151,5,20739,4416,23318,9689,4953,481,20773,46],"class_list":["post-20383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-africa","tag-berlin","tag-collections-world","tag-epidemics","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-reuters","tag-south-sudan","tag-uganda","tag-united-nations","tag-united-states","tag-world-health-organization","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}