Rubio thanks Czechia for taking in American doctor exposed to Ebola

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has thanked Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and Prague medical staff in a post on X for accepting an American doctor who may have been exposed to Ebola in Congo.

The doctor was flown to Prague overnight and is being kept in isolation at Bulovka University Hospital after the U.S. Embassy asked whether he could remain in Czechia until the end of the incubation period. According to the hospital, the 46-year-old man is not showing any symptoms.

U.S. television network NBC reported that the man works for the Christian missionary organisation Serge and had been serving at a hospital in eastern Congo’s Ituri province, where an Ebola outbreak has been reported.