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DRC), including a crowded displacement camp, raising fears that the country’s near-month-long outbreak is entering a more dangerous phase and larger scale than previously thought. The outbreak, caused by the rare Bundibugyo
DRC and had spread to neighbouring Uganda. Unlike the more common Zaire strain, there are [no approved vaccines](/news/2026/6/4/what-are-the-ebola-vaccines-under-research-and-when-will-they-be-ready) or treatments for the Bundibugyo strain. There are fears that the outbreak could become
Bundibugyo strain has no vaccine, no specific treatment,” DRC’s Health Minister Samuel-Roger Kamba said on Saturday. “This strain has a very high lethality rate, which can reach 50 percent.” The outbreak, the country
outbreak is out of control,” he said from Kinshasa, the DRC’s capital, this week. In the absence of a vaccine and approved treatment for the Bundibugyo strain of the virus, Kojan said, medics were
Bundibugyo strain of Ebola was being revised to “[very high at the national level](/news/2026/5/22/who-raises-ebola-public-health-risk-to-very-high-in-dr-congo), high at the regional level, and low at global level”. Nearly 750 suspected cases and 177 suspected deaths have been
Ebola virus. The base serves the Kenyan military. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared an international public health emergency on May 17 after officials detected the rare Bundibugyo strain, which they discovered had been circulating
Ebola immediately. "The country in the world who knows how to fight this disease is DRC because we have faced this many times. "The world doesn't need to be afraid." However, this latest outbreak
Bundibugyo strain of the virus, but Tedros said the recovery of six people in DRC and two in Uganda showed that people could survive Ebola if they had access to care and went to health
Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, first identified in 2007. The World Health Organization declared an international health emergency on May 17, 2026 over an outbreak of an Ebola strain in the Democratic Republic of Congo that
Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, first identified in 2007. The World Health Organization declared an international health emergency on May 17, 2026 over an outbreak of an Ebola strain in the Democratic Republic of Congo that
DRC Containing the [Ebola](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ebola) outbreak in the [Democratic Republic of Congo](https://www.theguardian.com/world/congo) requires community cooperation and is “everybody’s business”, the World Health Organization has said. [Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Ebola strain," says Nicole Lurie, executive director for preparedness and response at CEPI. When she and her colleagues learned this outbreak was driven by the rarer Bundibugyo species, they began surveying the landscape of Bundibugyo
strain of the Ituri outbreak, which is caused by the Bundibugyo variant of Ebola. It is the least well known of the three forms of the disease and has caused only two outbreaks before
Ebola epidemic in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has not yet peaked and could last for another year, the Red Cross has warned. “The peak is, I think, not behind
DRC for burial, Kaseya said. Given its high transmissibility, infectious disease experts recommend that healthcare workers dealing with Ebola patients wear head coverings, as well as goggles, masks or faceshields, gloves, gowns and even rubber
DRC for burial, Kaseya said. Given its high transmissibility, infectious disease experts recommend that healthcare workers dealing with Ebola patients wear head coverings, as well as goggles, masks or face shields, gloves, gowns and even
strain driving the current outbreak?](https://www.npr.org/2026/06/04/g-s1-125822/vaccine-ebola-democratic-republic-congo) "The first samples were tested on April 30th," says [Jean-Jaques Muyembe](https://www.un.org/osaa/en/academic-conference-2023/bios/jean-jacques-muyembe), general director of INRB, DRC's national biomedical research center
DRC, on May 24, 2026.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5437x5437+1358+0/resize/100/quality/85/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fff%2F47%2Fb621a55348d3a7f9a63c9040f1fd%2Fgettyimages-2277596847.jpg)](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/27/nx-s1-5834940/ebola-outbreak-congo) ### [Africa](https://www.npr.org/sections/africa/) ### [Congo's Ebola outbreak is spiraling, with health workers struggling to contain the virus](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/27/nx-s1-5834940/ebola-outbreak-congo) The outbreak remains focused in Congo
outbreak and that he would travel to the DRC on Tuesday with Chikwe Ihekweazu, the executive director of the WHO’s health emergencies programme. - **What causes Ebola****?** The rare Bundibugyo ebolavirus, which has no approved
Bundibugyo variant of Ebola, which has caused two outbreaks in recent decades. [Health](https://www.theguardian.com/society/health) leaders and scientists are now racing to understand where the virus is spreading and attempting to stop