The CDC confirmed Monday that one American has tested positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where an outbreak of a rare species of the virus is suspected of killing dozens of people. That person and six other American “high-risk contacts” were being flown to Germany for medical care and observation, a CDC official said.

Sixty-five people are reported to have died in a new Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Africa CDC said Friday. The outbreak, occurring in a…

A number of Americans who are in the Congo are believed to have had exposure to suspected cases in the country’s latest Ebola outbreak, sources have told STAT.

The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on Saturday.