The World Health Organization has declared the latest Ebola outbreak a global health emergency. The US is now restricting travel from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and South Sudan, barring entry to non-US passport holders who have traveled there in the past 21 days.
Dr. Peter Stafford, an American medical missionary working at Nyankunde Hospital in Bunia, DRC, has tested positive for Ebola. The CDC is coordinating his transfer to Germany for treatment along with his wife, Dr. Rebekah Stafford, their four children, and another doctor, Dr. Patrick LaRochelle. Both Rebekah Stafford and LaRochelle are currently asymptomatic.
CDC officials consider the risk to the American public low.