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.
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.
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.
Health ministry implements emergency restrictions as virus reaches rebel-controlled province, bringing total cases to nearly 600 with 139 deaths.
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 World Health Organization reports more than 540 cases across Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, with experts warning the true numbers could be much higher.
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.
WHO confirms one laboratory-positive case and five suspected infections aboard the Dutch expedition cruise ship; Cape Verde has refused permission for the vessel to dock.
A landmark summit in Lyon unveiled four global initiatives including rabies elimination and a unified H5N1 response framework.
A strike on Al-Daein Teaching Hospital in East Darfur destroyed the facility's paediatric, maternity, and emergency departments and left the city without functioning emergency medical care — pushing the war's health facility death toll past 2,000.
The attack on the East Darfur hospital on Friday night rendered it non-functional and brought the total death toll from attacks on Sudan's health facilities to more than 2,000 in the three-year civil war.