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29 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 14, 2026.
The Bundibugyo virus has reached 62 of 167 health zones in seven provinces four months after it was declared. Africa CDC says a few hot spots in Ituri are finally dipping.
Health ministry figures put the toll at 3,007 out of 6,186 confirmed cases across six provinces. Africa CDC believes the real outbreak may be three times larger than what has been counted.
The Bundibugyo strain, which has no approved vaccine or treatment, has produced 3,802 cases since May 15 — the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded. Patient zero has still not been identified.
The World Health Organization is battling a Bundibugyo-strain Ebola outbreak that has killed hundreds in the Democratic Republic of Congo, now complicated by a separate Marburg case across the border in Uganda.
Health officials call it the fastest-growing Ebola epidemic Africa has recorded, driven by a rare viral strain with no approved vaccine or cure.
The Bundibugyo strain has now killed more than 500 people across the Democratic Republic of Congo, and frontline responders — dozens of whom have caught the virus themselves — say they will strike over months of unpaid wages.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed 1,118 cases and 291 deaths from a fast-moving Bundibugyo virus outbreak that has now reached Uganda and France.
The supplemental request, sent Wednesday, is largely meant to replenish the Pentagon after Operation Epic Fury, and lands at a politically fraught moment for lawmakers wary of the war.
At least one demonstrator was killed Monday as police used tear gas and live rounds against crowds opposing a 50-bed isolation facility near Nanyuki built for Americans exposed to Ebola.
A rare Bundibugyo strain with no approved vaccine has killed at least 91 people and crossed into Uganda. U.S. modelers warn cases could exceed 20,000 within months.
Mining has been the economic lifeblood of this remote Democratic Republic of Congo community for decades, but now it's accelerating the spread of a deadly virus.
Mining operations that have sustained a hill town for decades are now accelerating the spread of the deadly virus, complicating containment efforts.
President William Ruto defended the 50-bed facility at Laikipia Air Base for Americans exposed to Ebola, even as a court froze the project and demonstrators clashed with police in Nanyuki.
Congo's Health Ministry reported 282 confirmed cases and dozens of deaths in Ituri province as the Bundibugyo strain jumps borders into Uganda, colliding with armed conflict that is hampering the response.
A remote gold mining community has become the epicenter of a deadly Ebola outbreak, with medical teams struggling against limited resources and dangerous conditions to stop the spread.
A judicial ruling prevents the US from relocating Americans exposed to Ebola to detention facilities in Kenya.
A remote gold mining community has become the epicenter of a deadly Ebola surge, with health officials battling to stop the spread of infections and mounting death toll.
Enhanced health screenings target passengers from Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and Uganda amid ongoing outbreak concerns.
An outbreak centered on the gold-mining town of Mongbwalu has killed at least 264 people and crossed into Uganda's capital, while attacks on health workers hamper the response.
WatchArmed groups in Ituri Province have ambushed response teams, stoned vaccinators, and burned a treatment unit in Bunia as the eighth Public Health Emergency of International Concern in the framework's 20-year history puts the U.S. CDC on Level 3 activation and routes all incoming passengers from Kinshasa, Entebbe and Kigali through five designated airports.
The controversial policy breaks with previous practice of treating exposed Americans in state-of-the-art domestic facilities, with some citizens already flown to Europe.
Health officials warn the current Ebola crisis has reached unprecedented scale with rapid transmission across affected regions.
Department of Homeland Security directs all flights carrying certain travelers to arrive at single Virginia airport as health officials scramble to contain outbreak.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus invoked the agency’s highest alarm Sunday after eight confirmed cases, 246 suspected cases and 80 suspected deaths surfaced in Ituri Province, with cross-border spread to western Uganda and no approved vaccine or treatment for the Bundibugyo strain.
The CDC said Stafford and five other high-risk American contacts have been evacuated to Germany, with a sixth in the Czech Republic, after the WHO declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.
Health officials report sharp rise to more than 130 suspected deaths since outbreak was first identified, marking significant escalation.
WatchThe rare Bundibugyo strain — for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment — has killed at least 88 people across Ituri province and Kampala, and at least six other Americans are believed to have been exposed.
The World Health Organization issues emergency declaration after confirming Ebola cases in Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda with no approved vaccine available.
Health experts alarmed that outbreak hadn't been announced sooner as hundreds of infections suspected.