Doctor returning from DR Congo tests positive for Ebola in France; contact tracing underway
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June 24, 2026
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PARIS, France (AFP) — French health authorities have launched contact-tracing efforts after confirming the country’s first case of Ebola on Wednesday, a doctor who had flown back from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is fighting a major outbreak.
The case is the first of the deadly haemorrhagic fever identified outside the African continent during the current outbreak, which has also affected Uganda.
It is the first time France has detected Ebola. In 2014, during a major outbreak in West Africa, two patients were transported to France, but they had been diagnosed abroad.
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