France has confirmed its first case of Ebola, diagnosed in a doctor who returned from humanitarian work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to the French health ministry, the patient is in stable condition at a specialist facility, with all isolation precautions taken immediately upon arrival. Authorities are tracing contacts and assess the risk to the broader European population as very low.

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