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Ebola News: 2026 Outbreak Headlines

Updated · 37 stories from the last 14 days

Where the DRC Ebola outbreak stands

The 2026 outbreak is caused by Bundibugyo virus, one of four orthoebolaviruses that cause Ebola disease in people. It matters for almost every story below: the licensed Ebola vaccine protects against the Zaire species and is not expected to work against this one, which is why a Bundibugyo-specific vaccine is only now entering trials.

Live Ebola Map records 10,172 confirmed cases and 4,932 confirmed deaths, a case-fatality rate of about 48%: 10,141 cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from the national count released 26 October by WHO AFRO, relayed by ECDC, 20 in Uganda (outbreak declared over by Uganda on 28 July; last confirmed case 21 June, last patient discharged 16 July; WHO also declared the outbreak's end on 25 August, 42 days without a new confirmed case being reported), 9 in Kenya (first case imported from the DRC via Uganda and reported 6 October; he died, and on 23 October the ministry announced that the third case, a 65-year-old relative, had died too; all nine cases are one cluster of his relatives and people who cared for him, with no evidence of spread beyond it), 1 in Nigeria (an imported case in Abuja, a woman who traveled from Uganda on 3 October; confirmed 20 October, with 54 contacts traced as of 26 October; she has since been medically evacuated to Switzerland), and 1 imported case in France (a medical humanitarian worker who returned infected from DRC, reported 24 June 2026, after the May imported case in a US citizen medically evacuated to Germany). Since 21 October the confirmed total has risen by 589 (6%) and the death toll by 327, while the case-fatality rate held steady at 48%.

The map shows a smaller number, and deliberately so. Only one source splits this outbreak by province, the DRC situation report, and the most recent one covers 24 October (INSP SitRep N°163): Ituri (7,179 cases across 28 health zones), North Kivu (2,251), South Kivu (3), Haut-Uélé (436), Tshopo (77), Bas-Uélé (13), Sud Ubangi (2), Nord Ubangi (3), totalling 9,964 cases and 4,841 deaths. The 177 cases and 87 deaths reported since then have not been assigned to a province by anyone, so they count in the total above but cannot yet be placed on the map. That gap is unassigned, not missing. You can see the shape of it over time on the trend chart, and every individual pin in the case table.

Two things to hold in mind while reading the headlines below. First, these are confirmed, laboratory-reported figures, and the real totals are almost certainly higher: case-finding in the affected areas of eastern DRC is incomplete, no cumulative count of suspected cases is published at all, and WHO has said the true scale may be several times the confirmed figure. Second, a headline below may quote a different number: the DRC publishes a national count most days but a province-level report only every few days, and outlets pick up whichever landed most recently, so two figures published within a day of each other can legitimately differ. Every number on this site is labelled with the date and the report it came from. The FAQ explains how they are compiled.

Latest Bundibugyo Ebola headlines

Live Ebola Map recorded 10,172 confirmed cases and 4,932 confirmed deaths on this date, a case-fatality rate of 48%.

Live Ebola Map recorded 10,091 confirmed cases and 4,891 confirmed deaths on this date, a case-fatality rate of 48%.

Live Ebola Map recorded 9,995 confirmed cases and 4,845 confirmed deaths on this date, a case-fatality rate of 48%.

Live Ebola Map recorded 9,735 confirmed cases and 4,690 confirmed deaths on this date, a case-fatality rate of 48%.

Live Ebola Map recorded 9,583 confirmed cases and 4,605 confirmed deaths on this date, a case-fatality rate of 48%.

Live Ebola Map recorded 9,484 confirmed cases and 4,564 confirmed deaths on this date, a case-fatality rate of 48%.

Live Ebola Map recorded 9,301 confirmed cases and 4,481 confirmed deaths on this date, a case-fatality rate of 48%.

Live Ebola Map recorded 9,235 confirmed cases and 4,444 confirmed deaths on this date, a case-fatality rate of 48%.

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