{"id":2197,"date":"2026-07-14T22:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/2026\/07\/14\/new-us-ebola-patient-arrives-in-germany-for-treatment\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T22:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:51:14","slug":"new-us-ebola-patient-arrives-in-germany-for-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=2197","title":{"rendered":"New US Ebola patient arrives in Germany for treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-gu-name=\"media\" class=\"dcr-14sl0e4\">\n<div class=\"dcr-17l77cs\">\n<figure id=\"2c55cb15-f181-4689-b93b-423e4a8ee8d2\" class=\"dcr-191xnya\">\n<div id=\"img-1\" class=\"dcr-1t7hdmw\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nurses in personal protective equipment spray each other in a tiled room\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f4b153750174c9abf7bc02ca458c29c492f9819b\/683_0_6827_5464\/master\/6827.jpg?width=465&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" width=\"465\" height=\"372.1634685806357\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"dcr-up96pv\"><span class=\"dcr-kogzpx\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-18mnkpm\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1294qmb\"><label for=\"the-checkbox\" class=\"dcr-4sl2vt\"><\/label> <\/p>\n<div id=\"the-caption\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1mfxiaj\"><span class=\"dcr-13i4yc9\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1cipnsy\">Nurses dressed in personal protective equipment demonstrate protocols for dealing with infected patients at Charit\u00e9 hospital in Berlin last month.<\/span> Photograph: Sean Gallup\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"#img-1\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-zwabc0\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><button data-element-id=\"2c55cb15-f181-4689-b93b-423e4a8ee8d2\" type=\"button\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-1bitgpn\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><span class=\"dcr-1shbixy\">View image in fullscreen<\/span><\/button><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-qda0hp\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1e9iiy9\"><span class=\"dcr-13i4yc9\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1cipnsy\">Nurses dressed in personal protective equipment demonstrate protocols for dealing with infected patients at Charit\u00e9 hospital in Berlin last month.<\/span> Photograph: Sean Gallup\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-gu-name=\"headline\" class=\"dcr-ql9l8l\">\n<div class=\"dcr-6mja0y\">\n<h1 class=\"dcr-l0wuod\">New US Ebola patient arrives in Germany for treatment<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-gu-name=\"standfirst\" class=\"dcr-1xpojbf\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1gm5ptv\">\n<p>Aid worker flown to Berlin as Trump administration bars Americans from traveling to US on commercial flights<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-gu-name=\"body\" class=\"dcr-x1al2c\">\n<div class=\"dcr-11gq2tx\">\n<div id=\"maincontent\" class=\"dcr-1w2vkyc\">\n<div class=\"article-body-commercial-selector article-body-viewer-selector dcr-ogvvui\">\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A US national who contracted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ebola\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Ebola<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/congo\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Democratic Republic of the Congo<\/a> has arrived in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/germany\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Germany<\/a> for treatment, the health ministry in Berlin said on Monday, weeks after another American infected with Ebola in the DRC was treated in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Meanwhile, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Trump administration<\/a> on Monday said it was blocking American citizens in \u2060the DRC from traveling to the US on commercial flights, Reuters reported, citing a White House official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The new American patient landed in Frankfurt overnight and was transferred to the city\u2019s university hospital, according to the German health ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The head of the World <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/health\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Health<\/a> Organization (WHO) said the man was a \u201chumanitarian worker\u201d who had been in Bunia, the capital of the north-eastern Ituri province of the DRC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Ituri is the center of an Ebola <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/jul\/12\/record-breaking-ebola-treatment-trial-drc\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">outbreak<\/a> that the DRC declared in mid-May \u2013 its 17th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The WHO had provided the infected man with \u201cclinical care and close monitoring\u201d, The WHO director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DrTedros\/status\/2076613415594844346?s=20\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">said<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"9a5c9d9d-8f09-4e23-8e77-0805c286bb9d\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-1oq85qr\">\n<div data-print-layout=\"hide\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-6 | 6\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-name=\"placeholder\" class=\"dcr-1rx5ky9\">\n<div data-format-theme=\"5\" data-format-design=\"0\" data-format-display=\"0\" class=\"dcr-rzyoqz\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/jul\/12\/record-breaking-ebola-treatment-trial-drc\" class=\"dcr-f35c0u\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-vvxpdt\">\n<div class=\"dcr-6z6e7\">\n<div class=\"dcr-zh9rih\">First patients enrolled in record-breaking Ebola treatment trial in DRC<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dcr-oj13vq\">\n<div class=\"dcr-ef9nua\">Read more<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cThe patient has been safely transferred to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/germany\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Germany<\/a> for continued follow-up care,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">An official working for the Christian aid group Samaritan\u2019s Purse confirmed to Reuters that the patient, in his 60s, was a full-time employee of the organization working as a warehouse manager in the DRC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The DRC\u2019s ongoing outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo strain of the virus \u2013 for which there is no vaccine or cure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">There have been more than 1,900 confirmed cases in the outbreak and more than 700 confirmed deaths, according to the WHO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The German health ministry said the US patient represented \u201cno danger for the general population or for other patients\u201d in the Frankfurt hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cThe risk of someone infected with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ebola\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Ebola<\/a> entering Germany is very low,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">It added that US authorities had requested help from Germany because of the country\u2019s expertise in treating Ebola cases and the shorter flight time from the DRC to Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Another US patient with the virus was quarantined at the end of May along with his family at Berlin\u2019s Charit\u00e9 hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">He made a recovery after two weeks of treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The Trump administration\u2019s barring Americans in the DRC from traveling to the United States on commercial flights is being done under a transportation authority known as Title 49, according to Reuters\u2019 reporting. That will place US citizens in the DRC or those who have recently left on a \u201cdo-not-board\u201d list until they have spent at least 21 days in a third country, Reuters reported, citing a White House official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">About two dozen Americans were set to board flights to the United States on Tuesday after having \u200ctraveled to the DRC, according to the US official quoted by Reuters. Reuters reported that the US state department would support those American citizens and others affected during the \u200bwaiting period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Ebola spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids from infected people or animals \u2013 and the often fatal viral disease causes symptoms that can include high fever, vomiting and internal and external bleeding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-print-layout=\"hide\" class=\"dcr-swayiu\"><span class=\"dcr-1xhbmzr\">Explore more on these topics<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-2c03t5\">\n<ul class=\"dcr-p7nd18\">\n<li class=\"dcr-r721ee\"><a href=\"\/world\/ebola\" class=\"dcr-856iwi\">Ebola<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-r721ee\"><a href=\"\/world\/congo\" class=\"dcr-856iwi\">Democratic Republic of the Congo<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-r721ee\"><a href=\"\/us-news\/trump-administration\" class=\"dcr-856iwi\">Trump administration<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-r721ee\"><a href=\"\/world\/germany\" class=\"dcr-856iwi\">Germany<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-r721ee\"><a href=\"\/world\/africa\" class=\"dcr-856iwi\">Africa<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-r721ee\"><a href=\"\/us-news\/us-politics\" class=\"dcr-856iwi\">US politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-r721ee\"><a href=\"\/world\/europe-news\" class=\"dcr-856iwi\">Europe<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-r721ee\"><a href=\"\/tone\/news\" class=\"dcr-856iwi\">news<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dcr-313bdz\"><a href=\"mailto:?subject=New%20US%20Ebola%20patient%20arrives%20in%20Germany%20for%20treatment&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/14\/american-ebola-patient-arrives-germany?CMP=share_btn_url\" class=\"dcr-ncybeu\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-19bkree\"><a data-link-name=\"meta-syndication-article\" href=\"https:\/\/syndication.theguardian.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2026%2Fjul%2F14%2Famerican-ebola-patient-arrives-germany&amp;type=article&amp;internalpagecode=world\/2026\/jul\/14\/american-ebola-patient-arrives-germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"Reuse this content\" class=\"dcr-1c41onw\">Reuse this content<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-gu-name=\"right-column\" class=\"dcr-1kq7f60\"><span class=\"dcr-1ryr20k\"><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nurses dressed in personal protective equipment demonstrate protocols for dealing with infected patients at Charit\u00e9 hospital in Berlin last month. 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