BERLIN, Germany(AFP) —  A United States (US) man who caught Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo was discharged from a German hospital on Saturday after recovering from the often deadly infection following 17 days of medical care, the clinic said.

The Charite public hospital in Berlin said the man — who had been working as a surgeon for a Christian missionary group in the DRC — and his five family members who had all been in quarantine, were in “good health” and permitted to leave.

The hospital published photos of the man, previously identified in reports as Dr Peter Stafford, 39, who works for the charity Serge.