The Washington Post May 26, 2026 • 10:31

Doctor evacuated from Congo is ‘helpless’ watching colleagues die of Ebola - The Washington Post

By Lauren Weber

Doctor evacuated from Congo is ‘helpless’ watching colleagues die of Ebola - The Washington Post

As Patrick LaRochelle waits in a specialized hospital room in Prague to see whether he has Ebola, his former colleagues in Congo are beginning to die of the deadly disease.

Murmurs of a casket disease had already begun by mid-May, as patients began to die in waves.
Patrick LaRochelle, an American missionary physician, was 20 minutes away from getting on a plane out of… [+133 chars]

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