{"id":661025,"date":"2026-05-23T20:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T20:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/661025\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T20:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T20:05:08","slug":"ebola-outbreak-live-updates-uganda-confirms-3-more-cases-as-who-warns-outbreak-is-spreading-rapidly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/661025\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola outbreak live updates: Uganda confirms 3 more cases as WHO warns outbreak is &#8216;spreading rapidly&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dr. Peter Stafford, who is being treated in Germany after contracting Ebola while treating patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is \u201ccritically ill but not acutely deteriorating,\u201d according to a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/serge.org\/blog\/american-medical-missionary-tests-positive-for-ebola-in-democratic-republic-of-congo\/\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:new update;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;new update&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\">new update<\/a> from Serge, a Christian missionary group with which he works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cPeter is continuing to show the predictable sequence of Ebola signs and symptoms. He passed through the first days of nonspecific symptoms (fever, aches, fatigue), and has now passed into a phase with vomiting, diarrhea, and rash, with labs trending slightly in the right direction,\u201d Dr. Scott Myhre, Serge\u2019s area director for east and central Africa, said in a blog post on the organization\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a brief phone conversation, Stafford told Myhre that he believes being evacuated to Germany may have saved his life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cBefore I was evacuated I was feeling really concerned I wasn\u2019t going to make it. And now I\u2019m cautiously optimistic,\u201d he said, according to Myhre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stafford\u2019s wife, who is also a doctor, and their four children are considered high-risk contacts and are being quarantined in Germany. All of them are currently asymptomatic. Another American doctor who works with Stafford, Dr. Patrick LaRochelle, was evacuated to the Czech Republic, where he is being monitored under quarantine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Peter Stafford, who is being treated in Germany after contracting Ebola while treating patients in the Democratic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[289270,86521,280886,97,289269,280817,289083,21784,4871],"class_list":["post-661025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-chartered-flight","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-ebola-outbreak","tag-health","tag-health-worker","tag-peter-stafford","tag-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus","tag-uganda","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}