On Wednesday, June 26 -- PARIS - The first Ebola patient in France arrived quietly, isolating himself before French health authorities had confirmed the diagnosis. The doctor had returned from a humanitarian mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he had been treating patients with the virus that would follow him home.

he had tested positive for Bundibugyo virus disease, making him the first person to carry Ebola out of Africa during an outbreak that has been spreading faster than any in recorded history, Al Jazeera reported.

The case is a threshold moment. Since the epidemic was identified in the DRC's northeastern Ituri Province in early May, it has killed 291 people and infected 1,118, according to DRC Ministry of Heal...