Key developments in the 2026 DR Congo Ebola outbreak, and news from our campaign. This page is updated as the situation evolves.
Emergency physicians Dr. Sonya Stokes and Dr. Andi Tenner launched a fundraising campaign to get protective equipment, medical supplies, and direct support to Congolese healthcare workers responding to the outbreak through Rebuild Hope for Africa.
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Reporting highlighted the severe shortage of resources facing health workers — limited isolation beds, gaps in surveillance, and the strain of responding in a region already destabilized by conflict.
Source: Japan Times
After visiting affected communities, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described a collapsed health system with no surveillance and trained responders no longer in place. Residents told him Ebola was “a lesser evil” next to conflict, malaria, and hunger.
Source: STAT News
WHO epidemiologists warned that cases were being identified in new health zones on a near-daily basis, and that the true scale was “much bigger than what is being detected.” Contact tracing remained far below the level needed to contain spread.
Source: Al Jazeera
Two days after the initial declaration, the outbreak was designated a global public health emergency, reflecting the danger of a vaccine-less strain spreading in a conflict zone with hundreds of thousands of displaced people.
The World Health Organization declared an Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo strain — for which no approved vaccine or treatment exists — in northeastern DRC, with a related case confirmed in Uganda's capital, Kampala.
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