France's first diagnosed Ebola patient recovers after treatment

A medical team from the Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) sets up an Ebola treatment centre in Rwampara outside Bunia, Ituri province, DRC, 29 May 2026. The doctor who was the first diagnosed Ebola case in France had returned from a mission with ALIMA in the DRC. © Gradel Muyisa Mumbere/Reuters

A French doctor who was the first-ever diagnosed case of Ebola in the country has made a full recovery and has been discharged from hospital.

The doctor had tested positive for the virus after returning to France on 23 June from a humanitarian mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which is fighting a major outbreak of the virus, which can cause a deadly hemorrhagic fever.