A medical missionary who contracted Ebola while treating an Ebola-infected patient in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is steadily recovering. His wife and their four children have tested negative and remain asymptomatic.
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Dr. Peter Stafford, 39, serves with the missionary group Serge and formerly worked with Samaritan’s Purse’s post-residency program in Togo and the DRC. He is receiving medical treatment in Berlin, Germany, where he is under “superb care,” according to a Serge update.
Call for prayer
Franklin Graham is calling Christians to pray for Stafford and his family as he recovers in Charité hospital.
Stafford has been serving as a medical doctor at Nyankunde Hospital since 2023. The hospital is located in Bunia, a city in eastern Congo.
He was flown to Berlin on May 19.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by and originally published by Decision Magazine.
