Ebola, surgeon from DR Congo expected at Spallanzani
"One man and one woman showed symptoms such as high fever, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea with mild neurological symptoms," said Guido Bertolaso
The Italian doctor, a surgeon from the humanitarian organisation Medics Without Borders (Msf), who came into contact during her work in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with patients who later tested positive for Ebola, is expected to arrive in Rome by this evening, according to reports.
The doctor - who has no symptoms at the moment - will be taken to the Spallanzani Institute for quarantine and active surveillance, as announced yesterday. The doctor operated at the Salamat health centre (in Bunia, Ituri province, epicentre of the ongoing Bundibugyo virus epidemic in the DRC) and also performed emergency life-saving surgery on 18 May on a child victim of a grenade explosion. The child is a suspected case of Ebola whose testing is not yet available.
Yesterday, the Ministry of Health, in announcing the return of the Italian doctor, reminded us that there are no cases of Ebola in Italia at the moment and that 'the alarm is very low in our country'.
Ebola, negative test for the two Como aid workers
At Lurate Caccivio, in the Como area, on 26 May 2026, a 'health protocol was activated for some people who had returned from Uganda in the past few hours and underwent, as a precautionary measure, a specialist clinical evaluation' to check for the possible presence of the Ebola virus.
After two people with fever had been transferred to Milan's Sacco hospital, for diagnostic tests according to national and international protocols.
