Posted/updated on: June 24, 2026 at 8:45 am Ebola virus test, conceptual image. (DIGICOMPHOTO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- France has confirmed its first Ebola case linked to the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, officials said. The patient is a humanitarian doctor who recently returned from the DRC and has been transferred to a specialist hospital, authorities confirmed.