{"id":492875,"date":"2026-05-19T19:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/492875\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:18:11","slug":"ebola-deaths-surge-30-percent-as-berlin-prepares-for-patient-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/492875\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola deaths surge 30 percent as Berlin prepares for patient \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Measures that specifically exclude foreigners are ineffective, said Jeanne Marrazzo, head of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. &#8220;Diseases don&#8217;t have passports,&#8221; she said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idsociety.org\/news--publications-new\/articles\/2026\/statement-on-ebola-travel-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fastest path to protecting all countries in the world is to aggressively support outbreak control at the source,\u201d Jean Kaseya, head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/africacdc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/US-Travel-Restrictions-Related-to-the-Bundibugyo-Ebola-Outbreak-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlobal health security cannot be achieved through borders alone. It is achieved through partnership, trust, science, and rapid investment in preparedness and response capacity,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the American doctor being transferred to Germany, Peter Stafford, worked for the U.S. missionary organization Serge and treated Ebola patients in Nyankunde Hospital, Ituri.<\/p>\n<p>Stafford was one of three doctors treating patients in the region when the outbreak began. The other two doctors \u2014 his wife, Rebekah Stafford, and Patrick LaRochelle \u2014 have not yet shown any symptoms, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/serge.org\/blog\/american-medical-missionary-tests-positive-for-ebola-in-democratic-republic-of-congo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Serge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. State Department said Monday it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/office-of-the-spokesperson\/2026\/05\/united-states-responds-to-ebola-outbreak-in-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">coordinating<\/a> \u201ca comprehensive response\u201d to the Ebola outbreak, \u201cworking closely with [the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and the U.S. military on potential repatriation of affected Americans, based on assessed exposure and health needs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Measures that specifically exclude foreigners are ineffective, said Jeanne Marrazzo, head of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[275],"tags":[36812,18,8708,135,475,474,19,4381,17,11025,4111,2101,34498,160876,49695,14160],"class_list":["post-492875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-eire","tag-global-health","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-ireland","tag-medicines","tag-prevention","tag-public-health","tag-rwanda","tag-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus","tag-uganda","tag-vaccines"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116602857482517252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}