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FRANCE REPORTS EBOLA CASE

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SOURCE: Reuters

06/24/2026

11:43

FRANCE REPORTS EBOLA CASE

PARIS, JUNE 24 /SRNA-Reuters/ - A doctor who returned to France from a mission in Congo tested positive for Ebola, the first case of infection in that country in a new wave of the epidemic, the French Health Ministry said.

The statement said the patient was isolated and authorities were tracing people he had been in contact with.

The ministry stressed that the risk of Ebola spreading in Europe was low.