Bundibugyo ebolavirus

Um, on May 15th, the Central Emergency Response and Surveillance Lab in Kampala confirmed the presence of-

BVD, Bundibugyo virus

... by, uh, by PCR.

The same day, DRC confirmed the BVD outbreak.

Um, now the, the second one, um, is actually the main outbreak.

So this is the MMWR notes from the field characteristics and monitoring of the 2026 outbreak of Ebola disease caused by-

...

Quick catch-up before we dig in.

The DRC Bundibugyo outbreak had been tracked across six provinces.

As of September 6, the Communications Ministry reported 6,686 confirmed cases, 3,226 deaths, a 48.3% case fatality rate, and 85.3% contact tracing.

South Kivu had gone 97 days with no new cases, while questions remained around a confirmed case in AFC-slash-M23-controlled China.

From Headlines Briefing.

Ebola has spread to a seventh province in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a 23-year-old man tested positive for the virus following a cross-country journey that included travel through neighboring Rwanda and Uganda.

The man died in Gwaka in the northwestern province of Sudubangi after testing positive for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola virus, said Jean-Jacques Mubungani, a former Congolese health minister and national lawmaker.

The Bundibugyo outbreak we tracked across six provinces has now reached Sudubangi.

New to this story? Here's where it stands.

Before this edition, the DRC-Bundibugyo outbreak had already spread across six provinces, with INSP reporting 6,604 confirmed cases and 3,175 deaths.

A confirmed case in AFC-M23-controlled Kaina kept concerns about surveillance and contact tracing alive in rebel-held North Kivu.

For responders and planners, access and response capacity remained recurring questions.

Are those efforts meeting soon enough? If you're just joining us, here's where we were before this report.

The DRC Bundibugyo outbreak had reached six provinces, with six thousand three hundred and forty-two laboratory-confirmed cases and three thousand seventy-two deaths by September 2.

A confirmed case in AFC-M twenty-three-controlled Kina kept surveillance and contact tracing concerns alive in rebel-held North Kivu, while responders also face gaps in strain-specific medical tools and access.

This is Ebola Watch.

Over the past twenty-four hours, eighty-two new cases and forty-one deaths have been recorded.

"The total number of cases since the start of the outbreak has reached six thousand six hundred and four, with three thousand one hundred seventy-five deaths," the statement read.

INSP now puts the DRC Bundibugyo outbreak at six thousand six hundred and four confirmed cases, with three thousand one hundred and seventy-five deaths.

That label matters.

Here's how we got here.

DRC's Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak had already been reported at 6,250 cases and 3,039 deaths, with no approved strain-specific vaccine or treatment in routine use.

Surveillance concerns widened after a confirmed case was recorded in the AFC M23-controlled Kaina Health Zone.

That followed rebel authorities' earlier declaration that areas under their control were Ebola-free.

Aid is arriving, case counts are changing, and we're sorting out which numbers actually tell you what's happening.

First, Tanzania's delivery.

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Can testing and tracking move faster than Ebola? New to this story? Here's where we are.

The DRC-Bundibugyo outbreak was already the second largest Ebola outbreak in history going into this edition, and surveillance gaps have been the central problem.

CDC said targets weren't being met for case detection alerts contact tracing, lab testing, isolation of infected people, and safe, dignified burials.

So responders were still missing chains of transmission.

DRC's Ebola response is straining, and today, we're asking where it's breaking first.

If you're just joining us, since May, DRC has been responding to a Bundibugyo virus Ebola outbreak that has reached six provinces.

North Kivu is among the hardest-hit response areas, and MSF is expanding treatment capacity in Beni.

By August 12, WHO had counted 4,686 confirmed cases.

The head of the World Health Organization says the Ebola response needs to be scaled up to tackle the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with tracking the chains of transmission still posing a challenge.

Until every chain is found and broken, the epidemic will continue and will continue to pose a threat to DRC, its neighbors, and the region as a whole, the WHO's director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told reporters in Geneva.

The DRC's Bundibugyo outbreak has taken another grim turn.

Government data now puts the death toll above 3,000, with WHO pressing for a faster scale-up.