Family of US Ebola patient admitted to Berlin isolation ward
The rare Bundibugyo strain has killed 131 people, and six other high-risk US citizens are being moved to Europe for care, officials said.
- American missionary Dr. Peter Stafford is stable at Berlin's Charité University Hospital after contracting Ebola while treating patients in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His condition has improved since arrival, according to colleague Matt Allison.
- The outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo strain in the DRC's Ituri province has killed 131 people and sparked a World Health Organization public health emergency declaration on Sunday. Nearly 600 suspected cases have been reported.
- Stafford, 39, is responding well to treatment and able to eat, Allison noted. His wife, Rebekah Stafford, and fellow missionary Peter LaRochelle, 46, were potentially exposed to Ebola through their hospital work in the DRC.
- Six other high-risk United States citizens were moved to Germany and the Czech Republic for care. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the White House resisted allowing Stafford to return to the United States, delaying his evacuation.
- CDC incident manager Satish Pillai confirmed Tuesday that genetic testing shows this Ebola strain resembles 2007 and 2012 outbreaks, enabling existing diagnostic tools. The agency is preparing to restrict entry for travelers from parts of central Africa.
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The American missionary and physician Peter Stafford, who took Ebola while working with patients in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is already with his family in the Special Insulation Unit (SIS) of the Charité Hospital in Berlin, has also been moved to the German capital to keep it under observation.The Ebola outbreak has already cost 139 people their lives, according to the latest data provided by the World Health Organization.Cont…
"I'm very concerned," said WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus with regard to the Ebola spread in the Congo. Now the highest paying sheep in Germany are being considered with the so worrying virus: A diseased US doctor has been flown in – and only a day later his family has also landed at BER airport. The wife and the four young children of the Ebola patient have also been taken to the Charité High Security Isolation Station. Thus, the entir…
A newspaper report suggests that the US government did not want its infected citizen in its own country, but there are also good objective reasons to treat him in Berlin.
Family of US Ebola patient admitted to Berlin isolation ward
The family of a U.S. citizen who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where an outbreak of a rare strain of the virus has killed over 130 people, has been admitted to an isolation ward at the Berlin hospital where he is being treated.
On a request for help from the US authorities, a US-American infected with the Ebola virus as well as his wife and four children are treated in the Charité in Berlin.
saarbruecker-zeitung.de
HandelsblattAfter the infected father of the family, wife and children have now also been admitted to the Charité special isolation station.
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