{"id":493678,"date":"2026-06-24T20:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/493678\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T20:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:08:21","slug":"france-reports-ebola-case-in-doctor-returning-from-congo-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/493678\/","title":{"rendered":"France reports Ebola case in doctor returning from Congo \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo has tested positive for Ebola in France, the country\u2019s Ministry of Health <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sante_Gouv\/status\/2069712132661268650\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first case of Ebola reported in France since the start of the current outbreak. The patient is in isolation and in a stable condition, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor was returning from a humanitarian mission in one of the affected areas in Congo. The crisis is among the worst Ebola outbreaks in history, with more than 1,000 cases confirmed so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, a type of Ebola for which there are no approved drugs or vaccines. Work is underway on four experimental vaccine candidates, but clinical trials have not yet started.<\/p>\n<p>Germany and the Czech Republic last month accepted two U.S. doctors infected with Ebola for hospital treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A doctor returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo has tested positive for Ebola in France, the country\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3528,23268,1221,134,527,6474,111,139,69,6293,1675,3059],"class_list":["post-493678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-doctors","tag-ebola","tag-france","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-patients","tag-public-health","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}