Posted on 05/20/2026 6:24:20 PM PDT by Red Badger
The American doctor who contracted Ebola and was transferred to Germany is starting to feel better and is able to eat, according to his colleague.
Dr. Peter Stafford is currently hospitalized in Berlin's Charite University Hospital after testing positive for the disease due to his work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
His colleague, Matt Allison -- the executive director of Serge, the Christian missionary group Stafford works for -- told ABC News that the doctor has been receiving monoclonal antibodies during his hospitalization.
Allison said it appears Stafford's condition has improved since landing in Germany and that he has been able to text his colleagues.
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Slightly recovering, but he will probably remain in isolation for now. He must not have been taking
Universal Precautions.
“I’m getting better.”
“No you’re not, you’ll be stone dead in a moment.”
Ebola kills you fast. If he can survive these first few weeks he will be fine .
When you’re doing medical missionary work, sometimes you don’t have all the PPE that you need. I’m glad he’s doing better. God’s watching out for him.
Continuing my prayers for the doc and his family.
I think this guy was operating on a liver or some other organ and everything went fine, except that shortly after, the patient mysteriously died, it wasn’t until after the patient was buried that they figured out that he probably died of
Ebola.
If this is the same doctor.
Here it is.
“Stafford had operated on a 33-year-old patient with severe abdominal pain just days before the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the outbreak. Doctors believed that the patient had a gallbladder infection.
However, when Stafford conducted the abdominal procedure, Myhre says that the patient’s gall bladder was normal. As a result, Stafford “closed him up,” but the patient died the next day.
Days later, they realized that the patient most likely died of Ebola but had been buried before he could be tested.
Myhre says that Stafford quarantined himself as soon as he developed symptoms, including chills, fever, muscle aches, fatigue and nausea.
“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.””
If you don’t wear goggles and face shield, the ebola can infect you through your eyes, but if they didn’t know he was infected, it’s a crap shoot.
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