American Ebola case prompts US to invoke Title 42 as outbreak spreads across DRC, Uganda

Over 100 deaths reported; American physician infected; four health workers among suspected deaths; thousands killed and displaced in DRC since January due to ongoing conflict.

In the forests of northeastern Congo, where the Ebola virus has emerged sixteen times before, it has risen again — this time carrying an American face and an international alarm. A missionary physician named Peter Stafford has tested positive for the Bundibugyo strain, a variant with no approved vaccine or treatment, as the outbreak claims more than a hundred lives across the DRC and Uganda. The World Health Organization has declared a public health emergency of international concern, and the United States has invoked a wartime-era public health law for only the second time in the modern era,

American Ebola case prompts US to invoke Title 42 as outbreak spreads across DRC, Uganda

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