DR Congo's 2026 Ebola outbreak, declared 15 May 2026 in Ituri Province and confirmed a WHO public health emergency of international concern on 17 May, is cause…
A hemorrhagic fever outbreak swept villages near Yambuku Mission Hospital between September and October 1976, spread largely by reused, unsterilized needles. Internation…
Nineteen years after Yambuku, Ebola returned, spreading substantially inside Kikwit General Hospital before international teams introduced strict barrier nursing that ha…
An unusual hemorrhagic-fever cluster in western Uganda turned out to be caused by a virus roughly 32% genetically divergent from Zaire ebolavirus, a new Ebola species th…
DRC's 10th recorded outbreak, and the first ever fought inside an active conflict zone, brought Ervebo vaccination to large scale for the first time and eventually ended…
Genomic sequencing linked a small February-May 2021 outbreak to the earlier Kivu epidemic, a rare case of viral persistence in a survivor re-emerging years after recover…
DRC's 16th recorded outbreak, caused by Zaire ebolavirus, was declared 4 September 2025 in remote Kasai Province and declared over by 1 December 2025 after fast contact…
WHO was alerted 5 May 2026 to a high-mortality illness in a mining area of Ituri Province; Bundibugyo virus was confirmed 15 May, and WHO declared a public health emerge…
By mid-August 2026, confirmed cases and deaths had both surpassed the 2018-2020 Kivu outbreak, making this DRC's worst Ebola crisis on record, while remaining the world'…
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