On 4 September 2025, the Ministry of Public Health, Hygiene and Social Welfare officially declared the 16th Ebola disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This outbreak ended on 1 December 2025 and occurred in Bulape Health Zone, Kasaï Province, an area with limited access to appropriate healthca...
A. Amuri-Aziza, Gradi Luakanda-Ndelemo, J. Makangara-Cigolo et al.· Nature Communications· 1 citation
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is experiencing a major outbreak of Ebola disease caused by Orthoebolavirus bundibugyoense (Bundibugyo virus), which was declared on May 15, 2026. To investigate the timing of emergence and early transmission, we generated near full length Bundibugyo virus genomes from 686 PCR-confi...
T. Wawina-Bokalanga, P. Akilimali, J. Pekar et al.· medRxiv· 0 citations
BACKGROUND
An Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Bulape health zone, Kasaï province, DR Congo, was declared on Sept 4, 2025, and ended on Dec 1, 2025. We describe the dynamics of this outbreak and the molecular characteristics of the causative Ebola virus variant (species Orthoebolavirus zairense).
METHODS
This re...
T. Wawina-Bokalanga, J. Otshudiema, Richard Kitenge-Omasumbu et al.· The Lancet Microbe· 0 citations
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