Germany treats US Ebola patient as US tightens Congo travel rules

A US national who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has arrived in Frankfurt for treatment, marking another Ebola case treated in Germany after a prior patient in Berlin; the patient, in his 60s and a humanitarian worker with Samaritan’s Purse, is under care as the WHO monitors the Ituri outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo strain (no vaccine or cure). The Trump administration has barred Americans in the DRC from flying home on commercial flights, placing them on a do-not-board list until they spend 21 days in a third country; about two dozen Americans were expected to board flights back, amid confirmation that the overall risk to Germany remains very low.