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Posted on 05/20/2026 7:01:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
By the time an American surgeon who contracted Ebola in Congo was flown to Germany for treatment Tuesday, he was barely able to stand on his own, according to two leaders of the Christian missionary group with which he worked.
Dr. Scott Myhre, East and Central Africa area director for the group Serge, described the scene as Dr. Peter Stafford departed.
“There were people in full — we call it PPE — the personal protective equipment, and they’re completely covered, and he’s hanging on them barely strong enough to walk,” Myhre said. “He looked really tired and really sick.”
Stafford, 39, worked at Nyankunde Hospital, which is in Congo’s Ituri province, where the Ebola outbreak is centered. Days before the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the outbreak, Stafford operated on a 33-year-old patient with severe abdominal pain, Myhre said. At the time, doctors thought the patient had a gallbladder infection.
Stafford “did an abdominal procedure and found that the gallbladder was normal and closed him up, but this patient subsequently died the next day,” Myhre said.
Days later, they realized the patient, who was buried before he could be tested, most likely died of Ebola. Stafford developed symptoms over the weekend and tested positive for Ebola on Sunday, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“He’s a very meticulous professional, and for every surgical case he does, he would be completely gowned in sterile garb and gloves and hats and glasses,” Myhre said. “But that’s not quite enough to prevent an Ebola exposure.”
Stafford’s wife, Rebekah Stafford, 38, is also a doctor and treated the same patient.
She and the couple’s four young children are also being monitored, Myhre said. Another physician, Patrick LaRochelle, 46, is thought to have been exposed through a second patient and is being monitored, as well. None has shown signs of illness.
They have all “departed DRC and are en route to other locations where they can be monitored in close proximity to expert care if needed,” Serge said in a statement Wednesday. While the Staffords have all gone to Germany, LaRochelle was being taken to Prague’s Bulovka Hospital, Serge said, which the Czech Health Ministry said has “specialized facilities for highly dangerous infections.”
Myhre said Stafford quarantined himself as soon as he developed symptoms, which included chills, fever, muscle aches, fatigue and nausea.
For the flight to Germany, Myhre said, Stafford was placed in a tube-shaped plastic bed, “about the size of a casket,” to protect the airplane’s crew from getting infected.
The incubation period for the virus is up to 21 days, according to the World Health Organization, whose leaders have expressed serious concern over the “scale and speed of the epidemic.”
The virus was likely to have been spreading for weeks before the outbreak was identified. The death toll has risen quickly: At least 131 people in central Africa are thought to have died, and 531 are suspected to have been infected.
The type of Ebola fueling the outbreak is a less common form known as Bundibugyo, which has no approved vaccine or treatment. During previous Bundibugyo outbreaks, the death rate ranged from 30% to 50%, according to WHO.
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A hospital in Germany? The Germans are taking this on?
No. It’s an American Military hospital The publication doesn’t elaborate on that ?
*** “He’s a very meticulous professional, and for every surgical case he does, he would be completely gowned in sterile garb and gloves and hats and glasses,” Myhre said. “But that’s not quite enough to prevent an Ebola exposure.”***
So a virus can get past all of that protection, huh?
And yes, prayers for this man and his family, and their caretakers, too.
Should have worn two masks, and maybe also maintained a distance of six feet.
I'm told that will stop anything!
Regards,
A hospital on the Rammstein US Military Base in Germany.
YouTube is rife with video clips of crazy / drunken women threatening / struggling with flight personnel, kicking and swearing like fishmongers, etc. - before finally being led away in cuffs (though even then, the "fun" isn't necessarily entirely over).
Time for some enterprising FReeper with a knack for A.I.-generated animation to create such a clip - but featuring a tube-shaped plastic bed.
"He won't let me sit next to the window!"You up for that, fireman15? Even a Norman Rockwell-style still image might be amusing!"But ma'am, he is suffering from Ebola!"
Regards,
Bundy bug you?
No translation needed...
They are why airline crews now have a jumbo roll of duct tape on every flight..............
131 known deaths.Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
The false positive rate was 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Hang the guilty. Free everyone else.
Radagast: I'll draw them off!Regards,Gandalf: These are
GundabadBundibugyo Wargs! They will outrun you.Radgast: [confident] These are Rhosgobel rabbits! I'd like to see them try.
“So a virus can get past all of that protection, huh?”
Apparently so. But yesterday I was told that it is most definitely not an airborne transmission, in no uncertain terms by another FReeper............
If a FReeper told you that, well...
Hats and glasses?..you would think he would have had FULL beadgear. Prayers he survives.
That is one of the best hospitals in the world!
I must have missed that movie. I don’t recognize the pic.
WHO employee?
I’ll never forget that early in Covid, they told us it was not human-human transmissible. They later reversed themselves, but should have lost all credibility from everyone.
Yes, but it definitely CAN'T get past a cheap paper mask. He should have skipped all of the PPE and just worn a "COVID" mask, and he'd have been totally protected. Also, he should have maintained 6' of "social distancing" from the patients vomiting blood.
Consider yourself fortunate to have never wasted a minute of your life watching that trash.
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