A US citizen who contracted Ebola while working as a doctor in East Africa has been discharged from a hospital in Germany after receiving treatment and testing negative for the virus.

Dozens of people have died and hundreds have been sickened in an Ebola outbreak centered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Angry residents of a town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo​ attacked and burned a tent that was part of a health center where people are being treated for the virus.

Residents of a town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo set a treatment center on fire on Friday night in the second such attack in the region in a week. Eighteen people believed to be sick with the virus left the facility as unidentified assailants targeted the clinic in Mongbwalu.

Americans who have high-risk exposures to Ebola in the current outbreak in Central Africa will have access to an experimental antibody treatment.

Dr. Peter Stafford was working with a missionary group in the Congo when he came down with the virus last month.

Every evening, after another day hunting Ebola through Bunia and surrounding villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dr. Patrick Katabuka stands at his front door and asks the question no doctor should have to ask: Should he go inside to his children?

East Africa’s Ebola outbreak, driven by the rare Bundibugyo strain, has no approved vaccine or treatment, prompting urgent global efforts to develop vaccines, drugs and preventive options as cases rise in DRC and Uganda.