2026 Congo Ebola outbreak

The October cases in Kenya were the first recorded cases of Ebola in the country.

Nigeria reported its first imported Ebola case in October, the first in more than a decade.

The DRC declared its 17th and largest Ebola outbreak in mid-May.

Almost all of Uganda's 20 cases involved people who had travelled from the DRC.

Kenya recorded two deaths and nine infections in October.

Clinical trials have begun with the Ervebo vaccine in recent weeks.

The UN warns that the current outbreak is taking lives at a much faster rate.

In Kenya, there have been nine confirmed cases and two recorded deaths.

Cases have been confirmed in Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda.

Kenya confirmed eight Ebola cases and 2 deaths in October.

A politician from the ruling party was killed in September after advocating for health measures on the radio.

Fifty of the affected 67 health zones have active cases.

Saudi Arabia suspended travel to and entry from Kenya on Friday.

The outbreak has reached eight of the DRC's 26 provinces.

Ebola has infected more than 10,000 people in the DRC since the outbreak was declared in May.

The Ebola treatment centre is run by Doctors Without Borders.

The Mongbwalu centre was where the latest Ebola outbreak began.

Healthcare workers at the Ebola treatment centre sang and danced in celebration.

The wider outbreak is the second-largest and second-deadliest on record, trailing only the 2014-2016 West African epidemic.

The 2014-2016 West African epidemic saw 28,600 infected and more than 11,000 dead.

The outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, a rare Ebola strain for which no vaccine or treatment has been approved.

Uganda's health ministry announced that Ugandans returning from DR Congo will be quarantined for 21 days.

Kenya has confirmed eight other cases of Ebola after the Kenyan businessman's case.

A second woman related to the Kenyan businessman died over the weekend.

Returning Ugandans with a history of travel to DRC must pay for their quarantine.

Uganda recorded 20 infections and two deaths during its Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak.

Ugandan officials said security footage showed no physical interaction between the Kenyan man and the Ugandan-born woman at Entebbe airport.

The current Ebola outbreak has been reported in four countries across eastern, central and western Africa.

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said trial participants were vaccinated with the Ervebo vaccine in Bunia, the capital of the DRC's northeastern Ituri province.

Both candidate vaccines received funding from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations.

The Nigeria patient is the Ugandan-born wife of a Swiss diplomat based in Abuja.

WHO representative in Nigeria Pavel Ursu said the information given to the organization included no travel outside Uganda by the Nigeria patient.

Africa CDC's Wessam Mankoula said both the first Nigerian case and the first Kenyan case had left Entebbe on October 3, and a possible encounter between them was under investigation.

Authorities have recorded at least 9,400 cases, including over 4,500 deaths, in the outbreak.

The outbreak is caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus.

Authorities in North Kivu province will introduce a one-week ban from Monday on people entering the province from Ituri.

Wajir county established an isolation centre and a rapid response team for Ebola preparedness.

Kenya confirmed a second case of Bundibugyo virus disease on October 14 involving a 39-year-old man who was a close family member of the first patient.

A suspected Ebola case in Wajir involving a 20-year-old man who traveled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo through Uganda tested negative.

The second Ebola patient in Kenya is a close relative of the first case.

The first Ebola victim in Kenya traveled from the Democratic Republic of Congo through Uganda to Kenya.

The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is caused by the Bundibugyo species of Ebola.

An ongoing conflict between the M23 rebel group and government forces is making transport of healthcare resources to remote regions difficult.

The current outbreak in the DRC was announced in mid-May.

Confirmed Ebola cases in the DRC have surpassed 9,000.

The latest report recorded 88 new cases.

65 health zones across seven provinces are affected by the outbreak.

A large share of recorded deaths have occurred outside treatment centers.

Kenya confirmed its first imported case of Bundibugyo virus disease on October 6, according to the WHO.

As of September 28, 34 percent of confirmed Ebola patients were being treated in non-specialised health facilities, according to MSF.

The WHO said in an October 8 update that Alimbongo health zone in North Kivu province had reported Ebola cases for the first time.

A 40-year-old Kenyan businessman became Kenya's first confirmed Ebola case after being diagnosed at a Nairobi hospital.

Ugandan officials said the patient's temperature was normal when he passed through airport screening.

The patient had lived in DR Congo for seven years before his diagnosis.

The strain behind the latest spread has been dubbed the Bundibugyo virus (BDBV).

The DRC officially declared an Ebola outbreak in May.

The Wajir county governor announced the negative test results in a statement.

Marie-Celestin Karondwa, a local UDPS official, was beaten to death after taking part in a radio programme to raise awareness about the epidemic.

Ongoing conflict with armed groups near the borders with South Sudan, Uganda, and Rwanda has hindered Ebola response efforts.

The current Ebola outbreak is the DRC's 17th.

WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the country's east faces a catastrophic collision of disease and conflict hampering the response.

The WHO said Ebola was present in Bas-Uele, Haut-Uele, Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu, Sud Ubangi and Tshopo provinces.

Karondwa was attacked on Sunday at his home in Butembo, in North Kivu province.

The outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, which has no known treatment or vaccine.

According to the Africa CDC, 50 health workers have died since the outbreak was announced.

The fatality rate of the outbreak is more than 48%.

10 neighbouring countries are at high risk due to the Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo.

An Ebola outbreak has spread to new areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Officials are stepping up border health measures in response to the Ebola outbreak.

The Ebola outbreak in the DRC is caused by the Bundibugyo strain.

Nearly 60 percent of people diagnosed with Ebola in North Kivu died, compared to a national average of 48 percent.

The number of health zones affected by the outbreak is 63 across seven provinces.

In the early stages of Bundibugyo strain infection, patients often experience milder symptoms easily mistaken for malaria and typhoid fever.

North Kivu is the second most affected province, with 1,480 new cases reported.

North Kivu was the epicentre of three previous Ebola outbreaks, including one in 2018-2020 caused by the Zaire strain.

The Ervebo vaccine was developed for use against the more common Zaire strain.

The Ervebo vaccine's effectiveness against the current Ebola strain caused by the Bundibugyo virus will be monitored in 20,000 recipients for up to one year.

The virus has killed at least 3,639 and infected some 7,541 people since May.

More than 7,200 cases and more than 3,500 deaths have been reported across seven provinces since the DRC declared its 17th Ebola outbreak in May.

Tedros said transmission was declining in Ituri province, the epicentre of the outbreak.

Ervebo is licensed against Zaire ebolavirus, but its effectiveness against the Bundibugyo strain is not known.

More than 7,000 Ebola cases have been recorded in the DRC's worst outbreak of the disease.

The DRC officially detected the latest outbreak in mid-May.

837 people were in isolation or receiving treatment as of the report.

837 people are in isolation or receiving treatment.

The outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo virus.

A case of Ebola was confirmed in a seventh province, South-Ubangi, in the northwest of the country.

Virologist Placide Mbala said the government is seeing signs of declining transmission.

An infected man travelled across the country and through Rwanda and Uganda to reach the seventh province.

Ebola has reached a seventh province in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Kingebeni said a key challenge is the limited supply of doses.

Kingebeni said vaccinations in Ituri are set to start next week.

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels control the provincial capital Goma.

New health centers have been established and are operational for the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Personal protective equipment is no longer in short supply in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ebola response.

Humanitarian funding has been provided for the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Justine Abineno, a chorister who died of Ebola, was buried in Ituri on a Friday.

Rose Tchwenko is the Mercy Corps country director in Congo.

The outbreak is caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus, for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment.

The vaccine used in the outbreak has not been proven effective against the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola.

DR Congo has begun vaccinating against its largest and deadliest recorded Ebola outbreak.

The Bundibugyo strain has killed 2,786 people out of 5,795 confirmed cases since May.

The overall fatality rate for the outbreak is 48 percent.

Efforts to contain the outbreak have been hampered by armed conflict, displacement, attacks on medical personnel and facilities, a mobile working population, and a lack of critical infrastructure.

The Ebola strain responsible for this outbreak is Bundibugyo.

MSF currently has 1,400 staff in DRC supporting the response and operates treatment centres with a total of 400 beds.

The outbreak is spreading faster than the 2014 to 2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa that killed more than 11,000 people and is on track to surpass it.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Thursday that Ebola is spreading faster than efforts to contain it.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is launching an Ebola vaccination campaign.

The vaccination campaign is using a vaccine for a different strain of the Ebola virus.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the deadliest the country has ever seen.

The two new zones affected are Biena and Manguredjipa in Congo's North Kivu province.

Doctors Without Borders opened a new treatment center in Beni in North Kivu.

Government figures published on Friday recorded 5,794 confirmed Ebola cases, including 2,786 deaths.

Uganda reported 20 Ebola infections in total, with its last confirmed case recorded on June 21.

The last Ebola patient in Uganda was discharged from Mulago National Referral Isolation Centre on July 16.

WHO made the announcement at a joint news conference with Uganda’s Ministry of Health.

The 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people.

Uganda and several health zones in DRC's Ituri and South Kivu have interrupted transmission.

Pope Leo urged the international community to respond in a way that involves local communities in prevention efforts to save as many lives as possible.

Authorities declared the outbreak on May 15.

This outbreak has recorded seven times more deaths at this stage than the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak.

On Friday, Congo received more than 16,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine.

The WHO currently rates the risk to the global public as low, but warns that the danger inside the DRC remains very high.

Pope Leo called for international action to help contain the Ebola epidemic in the DRC.

Contact tracing has improved from 30 percent in June to more than 85 percent.

As of August 21, the Democratic Republic of the Congo had recorded 5,290 confirmed cases and 2,516 deaths across 56 health zones.

Uganda has successfully interrupted locally acquired transmission of the virus.

The WHO declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, and the Africa CDC declared it a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security.

Health authorities have warned that approximately one person has been dying from Ebola every thirty minutes during the outbreak in the DRC.

The World Health Organization and partners pledged to provide 70,000 vaccine doses to the DRC.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo received 16,250 doses of the Ervebo vaccine in Kinshasa.

The Ervebo vaccine is approved against the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus.

The outbreak was declared in mid-May.

Samuel Roger Kamba is the DRC's health minister.

UN senior Ebola coordinator Julien Harneis stated that the epidemic spans an area larger than France and that half of the 2,500 deaths were recorded in the last 20 days.

The first infections were detected in Ituri province, and the virus has spread to five other provinces and Uganda.

The current outbreak has resulted in more than 2,500 deaths from over 5,000 infections.

The WHO confirmed that 20,000 vaccine doses will be utilized in a clinical trial for Bundibugyo and 50,000 doses will be given to front-line health workers.

WHO Ebola co-ordinator Julien Harneis stated that half of the outbreak's deaths occurred in the last 20 days.

Shared taxis and passenger boats between government-held and rebel-held zones in North Kivu province are suspended for one month starting on Saturday.

More than 2,500 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

More than 260 attacks on healthcare workers have been reported in the past six months, resulting in eight deaths.

Over 160 healthcare workers have contracted Ebola, leading to 43 deaths among them.

Ebola treatment centres have been attacked amid misinformation and community distrust

The Guardian editorial said international aid cuts deprived the DRC of vital human and material resources to fight the outbreak

Authorities in the DRC announced that at least 2,325 people have died from the Ebola virus in the current outbreak

Newport said some families have lost up to 15 relatives in the epicenter, Ituri province

WHO warned that the outbreak reached a weekly record of 579 cases and 304 deaths in the previous week

It is Congo's 17th Ebola outbreak, surpassing the 2018-2020 outbreak in which 2,299 deaths out of 3,481 cases were recorded

The West African Ebola outbreak of 2014-2016 killed approximately 11,000 people.

The current Ebola outbreak has claimed over 2,000 lives.

Jean-Jacques Muyembe is the head of Congo's National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB).

More than 200 passengers from the vessel were placed in isolation and tested using a mobile laboratory, with results coming back negative.

To break chains of transmission, 95% of all contacts must be tracked, but the current rate is believed to be around only 80%.

Authorities officially announced the outbreak on May 15.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the outbreak was on track to surpass the deadliest on record, which killed more than 11,000 people.

Jean Kaseya warned that if the outbreak is not stopped, it will last more than a year and will be the largest in the world.

The latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spread to a sixth province, Bas-Uele.

Containment efforts have been hampered by the region's remoteness, ongoing conflict, weak infrastructure, under-resourced clinics, circulating misinformation, and strikes by health workers over unpaid wages.

Dr Abdirahman Mahamud said under a more severe scenario the outbreak could stretch on for nine to 12 months.

The Ebola outbreak in DR Congo has killed more than 2,000 people out of more than 4,300 recorded cases.