France confirms this outbreak's first Ebola case outside Africa

France confirmed its first Ebola case, and the first identified outside Africa in this outbreak, in a humanitarian worker who returned from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Health authorities isolated the patient and began contact tracing. The case moved the outbreak onto a European watch list.

Earlier in the week the total of Ebola cases in Congo was reported to have passed 1,000. That cumulative figure and the French imported case were related but not the same statistic. One was a national total, the other a single traveler.

The United States military said recruits would be required to take the influenza vaccine during an outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. The step came after defense secretary Pete Hegseth had lifted the military vaccine mandate. It was a flu rule at a training base, not an Ebola rule.

Central African Republic health minister Pierre Somse declared a cholera outbreak in Bimbo and Mbaiki after 24 deaths. The declaration was a national health notice. It named the districts and the death count that triggered it.

Sri Lanka began enforcing a nationwide ban on selling or providing foods and drinks high in sugar, salt, and fat in schools, aimed at childhood obesity. That was a nutrition rule, recorded alongside the infectious-disease news. It did not claim to treat Ebola or cholera.

Heat deaths in France and Spain, counted in the same days, were environmental as well as medical. The Ebola facts that belong here are the French imported case, isolation and tracing, and Congo's total passing 1,000. Cholera in the Central African Republic was the other declared outbreak.