Posted on 06/24/2026 8:16:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin
France has confirmed its first case of Ebola - a doctor who had returned from a humanitarian mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The doctor was "immediately admitted to a specialised facility" and is in a stable condition, the French health ministry said on Wednesday.
DR Congo announced an Ebola outbreak last month, but experts believe the virus had been circulating for weeks previously.
More than 260 people are confirmed to have died from the virus in the central African country, while 1,000 people have been infected.
This is the first Ebola case to have been confirmed in Europe, although an American doctor who tested positive in DR Congo was treated at a German hospital last month.
DR Congo's neighbour, Uganda, has also confirmed Ebola cases. The World Health Organization (WHO) says 20 people are known to have been infected there and two deaths have been confirmed.
In its statement on Wednesday, France's health ministry stressed that the risk to the population was "very low".
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Imported from the Congo? No way! I would have assumed it arose spontaneously from some guy named Francois Pierre Lussier from smoking a cigarette outside a cafe with an air of sarcastic ennui.
What do DR Congo and Jill Biden have in common? Neither one is a doctor.
Why was a doctor from the Congo permitted to enter France without going thru a 21 day quarantine in the Congo before getting on a flight? Oh boy, the “kill 2/3” globalists are so thrilled.
I wonder if croissant-nesting snails are a vector?
a doctor who had returned from a humanitarian mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A French doctor who returned.
How did the doctor get home...?
Per the above, the doctor took a plane home...
On an Air France flight.
I’d better break out my tinfoil chapeau, because no way was this an oversight or just a lack of good judgment.
What our CDC does...
https://www.cdc.gov/ebola/situation-summary/returning-travelers.html
Oh, boy. Using AI, which cited CBS and 2 other sources...
“France itself does not generally restrict arrivals originating from Ebola-affected regions, instead opting for observation and symptom checks by the French Ministry of Health. However, airlines operating out of French airports (like Air France) are strictly enforcing U.S. and international entry restrictions for passengers originating from outbreak zones....”
Paging American tourists thinking of a little vaycay in France...
Here we go!
Wear ze mask.
Ebola is not considered to be highly contagious.
But I feel for anyone sitting next to the expletive-deleted who decided to take mass transpo home.
The other passengers are not likely to get sick if the doc wasn’t symptomatic and they had no contact with his/her bodily fluids, but if those other passengers have to quarantine...
What an avoidable PITA.
The fact that France doesn’t have travel restrictions for people coming from Ebola zones suggests something else is going on...
A vessel is a vessel. It doesn’t matter his or her citizenship origin. What matters are the pathogenic realities of virus containment protocols.
Inspector Clouseau: You said your Ebola was not communicable.
Street Guy: That is not my Ebola.
Let him work in a muzzie area.
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