A US surgeon who contracted Ebola while operating on a patient in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been discharged from Berlin's Charité hospital after more than two weeks of treatment, with doctors describing his recovery as a "significant therapeutic success." Peter Stafford, 39, who worked for a Christian missionary group in the DRC, was infected with the Bundibugyo strain of the virus — for which no approved vaccine yet exists — and received experimental therapies during his care; his wife and four children, held separately as high-risk contacts, were also cleared on the same day. The recovery comes as the broader outbreak continues to worsen, with the DRC reporting 488 cases and 86 deaths, Uganda confirming 19 cases and two deaths, and the WHO having declared an international public health emergency, with the US CDC warning the epidemic could become the largest on record.