Ebola

A day in the life of Congo's overstretched Ebola surveillance teams

Members of the Civil Protection, a local community-based team that works to help mitigate the spread of the Ebola virus and ensure burials happen safely and quickly, wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), load in to a coffin the body of an unidentified man, who according to his family, died of Ebola, after retrieving it from his house, as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain, in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, July 10, 2026. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere

First person vaccinated during trial of new Ebola jab

Red Cross workers wearing personal protective equipment as they disinfect the house of a man who died of Ebola, in Mongbwalu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on May 24.

Congo's Ebola deaths top 1,000 as violence and shortages hamper medics

FILE PHOTO: Congolese health workers receive a patient at the Rwampara General Hospital in Rwampara outside Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 21, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer//File Photo

Over 1,000 deaths recorded in Ebola outbreak in DRC, Uganda: WHO

In all, 2,473 cases of the deadly virus, including 999 deaths, have been confirmed in DRC.

Africa's top health official asks US to lift Ebola-related travel restrictions on Uganda

FILE PHOTO: Jean Kaseya, Director General of the Africa CDC, during an interview at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 13, 2026. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo

Canada to temporarily bar entry for foreigners who have recently been to Congo, against UN advice

FILE PHOTO: A health worker in full personal protective equipment (PPE) disinfects an area while preparing for the burial of suspected Ebola victims at the Kigonze displaced persons camp in Bunia, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on June 18, 2026, one month after the outbreak was declared. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere/ File Photo

US aid workers isolate at Kenya Ebola facility despite court ban

A satellite image shows tents erected at the US-backed Ebola quarantine facility at Laikipia Air Base in Kenya on June 22.

‘Walking Ebola’ helps explain why Congo’s outbreak is so hard to stop – and how to treat it

Deaths have almost doubled in July and more than 90 per cent of confirmed fatalities are occurring before patients reach treatment centres.

Transport of dead bodies within Congo risks further Ebola spread, UN agency warns

More than 2,000 Ebola cases and 700 deaths have been recorded in Congo and neighbouring Uganda as of July 14.

Aid group says seven Americans quarantining at Kenya Ebola facility after US travel ban

A member of the M23 rebel group stands guard as provincial authorities visit the Rodolphe Merieux Laboratory, National Biomedical Research Institute (INRB), where samples from suspected Ebola cases are tested, as part of the response to the epidemic in Goma, North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, May 19, 2026. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi/File Photo

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