Berlin’s Charite hospital hailed treatment as a ‘significant therapeutic success’ as outbreak spreads in DR Congo.By AFP, AP and DPAPublished On 6 Jun 20266 Jun 2026A doctor from the United States who fell ill with Ebola while working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has recovered after more than two weeks of treatment in Germany, according to the hospital that admitted him.The Charite public hospital in Berlin said the man – identified in media reports as 39-year-old Peter Stafford – was in “good health” and cleared to leave quarantine on Saturday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listStafford, who worked as a surgeon for a Christian missionary group in the DRC, was admitted on May 20 after a test established he had the rare Bundibugyo virus, the strain of Ebola identified in the outbreak in east and central Africa. He is believed to have caught the virus while operating on a patient with Ebola in eastern DRC, before the outbreak there was officially declared on May 15.Stafford was flown from Uganda to Berlin in a special aircraft and taken to the Charite hospital under strict safety precautions.His wife and four children, who had no symptoms but were initially classified as “high-risk contacts”, arrived in Berlin shortly afterwards and put in quarantine in a separate part of the ward. Their isolation restrictions were also lifted on Saturday.While three vaccines are being researched and set to be fast-tracked for trials, there is no approved vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola yet.Stafford said he received care that included “experimental therapies currently being trialled for this type of virus,” according to a hospital statement. …
