World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks to the media following an emergency committee meeting at WHO headquarters in Geneva on May 20, 2026. Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP
An American doctor is being transferred from Uganda to a hospital in Prague after he came into contact with an Ebola-infected patient, health officials in the Czech Republic said.
The doctor was showing no symptoms of the deadly virus as of May 20, and will be hospitalized as a precaution following a request from the United States, Czech Health Minister Adam Vojtech said on X.
