Germany reports two cases, both United States citizens medically evacuated from the DRC for treatment in a German high-containment unit — the first in May and a humanitarian worker who tested positive on 10 July and was evacuated on 13 July. Both are reported stable and subsequently recover. No secondary transmission occurs in Germany, and no Ebola case associated with this outbreak has been reported in the United States.
Ituri Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-07-10: 254 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 63 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 1531 confirmed cases and 395 deaths. Ituri has 28/36 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
North Kivu Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-07-10: 48 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 17 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 285 confirmed cases and 108 deaths. North Kivu has 16/34 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
Haut-Uélé Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-07-10: 14 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 3 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 47 confirmed cases and 7 deaths. Haut-Uélé has 6/13 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
Tshopo Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-07-10: 1 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus case and 0 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 1 confirmed cases and 0 deaths. Tshopo has 7/23 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
Ituri Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-07-03: 254 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 64 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 1277 confirmed cases and 332 deaths. Ituri has 28/36 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
North Kivu Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-07-03: 48 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 17 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 237 confirmed cases and 91 deaths. North Kivu has 16/34 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
Haut-Uélé Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-07-03: 14 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 3 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 33 confirmed cases and 4 deaths. Haut-Uélé has 6/13 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
Ituri Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-06-26: 241 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 64 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 1023 confirmed cases and 268 deaths. Ituri has 28/36 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
North Kivu Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-06-26: 46 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 18 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 189 confirmed cases and 74 deaths. North Kivu has 16/34 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
Haut-Uélé Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-06-26: 13 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 1 death reported. Provincial cumulative total 19 confirmed cases and 1 deaths. Haut-Uélé has 6/13 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
France confirms its first and only imported case on 24 June — a physician returning from a humanitarian mission in the DRC, managed in a high-containment unit and discharged recovered on 4 July. No secondary transmission occurs in France. ECDC assesses the likelihood of infection for people living in the EU/EEA as very low.
Uganda's last confirmed case is detected on 21 June, bringing the national total to 20 confirmed cases and two deaths among confirmed cases, with 18 recoveries. The final patient is discharged on 16 July, starting the 42-day countdown to an end-of-outbreak declaration.
Ituri Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-06-19: 165 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 64 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 782 confirmed cases and 204 deaths. Ituri has 28/36 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
North Kivu Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-06-19: 31 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 17 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 143 confirmed cases and 56 deaths. North Kivu has 16/34 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
Haut-Uélé Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-06-19: 6 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 0 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 6 confirmed cases and 0 deaths. Haut-Uélé has 6/13 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
MSF has three Ebola treatment centres running by 16 June — in Bunia, Goma and Mongbwalu — after announcing a 65-bed facility in Ituri on 1 June. CEPI announces emergency vaccine funding on 1 June (Moderna $50M, University of Oxford $8.6M, IAVI $3.2M); the United States pledges $112M, the United Kingdom £20M and the European Union €15M for the response.
Ituri Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-06-12: 165 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 64 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 617 confirmed cases and 140 deaths. Ituri has 28/36 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
North Kivu Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-06-12: 31 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 18 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 112 confirmed cases and 39 deaths. North Kivu has 16/34 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
Ituri Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-06-05: 165 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 64 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 452 confirmed cases and 76 deaths. Ituri has 28/36 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
North Kivu Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-06-05: 31 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 18 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 81 confirmed cases and 21 deaths. North Kivu has 16/34 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
Ituri Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-05-29: 165 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 12 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 287 confirmed cases and 12 deaths. Ituri has 28/36 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
North Kivu Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-05-29: 31 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 3 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 50 confirmed cases and 3 deaths. North Kivu has 16/34 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
Uganda's cumulative count reaches seven confirmed cases and one death among confirmed cases by 27 May, when the government closes the border with the DRC. Public-health measures include a nationwide discouragement of handshakes and hugs announced on 19 May, plus border screening and rapid-response teams in the western districts.
WHO upgrades the risk assessment for the DRC to 'very high' at national level. Response is complicated from the outset by insecurity in eastern DRC, community mistrust and patient flight: 18 suspected patients leave the Mongbwalu treatment centre on 23 May, and burial teams are attacked in Bunia, Katana and Mongbwalu through late May and June.
Ituri Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-05-22: 115 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 0 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 122 confirmed cases and 0 deaths. Ituri has 28/36 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
North Kivu Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-05-22: 19 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 0 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 19 confirmed cases and 0 deaths. North Kivu has 16/34 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
The WHO Director-General determines, following an IHR (2005) Emergency Committee consultation, that the Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak in the DRC and Uganda constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). It is the eighth PHEIC declared since the IHR came into force. The determination is reaffirmed on 18 August.
The DRC Ministry of Health declares its 17th Ebola outbreak since 1976. As of 15 May a total of 246 suspected cases and 80 deaths (four among confirmed cases) are reported across three Ituri health zones — Rwampara (six health areas), Mongbwalu (three health areas) and Bunia. Uganda declares its own outbreak the same day after an imported case.
Uganda declares an outbreak after confirming imported Bundibugyo virus cases. The first is a 59-year-old Congolese man admitted to a Kampala hospital on 11 May who died on 14 May; a second, unlinked imported case is confirmed on 16 May. Uganda's Central Public Health Laboratory at Wandegeya performs the confirmations. No sustained local transmission is established.
Ituri Province weekly surveillance window ending 2026-05-15: 7 newly confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 0 deaths reported. Provincial cumulative total 7 confirmed cases and 0 deaths. Ituri has 28/36 health zones affected. Figures are weekly increments derived from the published DRC national cumulative series and the provincial totals reported at 5 September 2026.
The Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB) in Kinshasa confirms eight non-Zaire filovirus cases from 13 samples, and genomic sequencing identifies Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV) — the first confirmed Bundibugyo emergence since the 2012 Isiro cluster and only the fourth on record. Critically, there is no licensed vaccine and no specific therapeutic for Bundibugyo virus, unlike Zaire ebolavirus with Ervebo and mAb114/REGN-EB3.
WHO is alerted to a potential viral haemorrhagic fever outbreak in Ituri Province and dispatches a response team. Four health workers at Mongbwalu General Referral Hospital have died within four days; an earlier health worker is the first documented suspected case. Twenty-four suspected cases are in isolation across the Rwampara, Mongbwalu and Bunia health zones.