American tests positive for rare incurable Ebola strain as outbreak spreads and kills more than 100 | 18 May 2026 | An American based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has contracted Ebola in the African nation’s latest outbreak. The CDC said Monday that an American doctor working with a medical missionary organization in the DRC developed Ebola after being exposed through work. The infected American is being evacuated to Germany, the CDC said. It’s unclear specifically why Germany was chosen, but it is home to the US Army’s Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, which has specialized wards equipped to handle infectious diseases. An additional six individuals are also in the process of being evacuated to receive treatment or monitoring, Satish K. Pillai, an incident manager for the CDC’s Ebola response, said in a press conference.