New Delhi, June 6 -- The US doctor who contracted the Ebola virus while working on a humanitarian mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been released from a hospital in Germany after recovering from the potentially deadly disease.

Peter Stafford was working with the missionary group Serge in the DRC when he contracted the rare strain of the Ebola virus, CBS News reported on Saturday (local time). Stafford was evacuated to a hospital in Berlin to receive care on 20 May, according to the group. His wife, who is also a doctor and was volunteering with the same group, was also evacuated and quarantined, along with her four children.

Stafford received treatment at the Charite hospital in Berlin, one of the top hospitals i...