Ebola tracker,
live on one globe.
Where Ebola is spreading, what changed and how fast it is moving. Avos reads the world's health agencies and local press around the clock and tells you, in plain words.
Front-line workers receive Ebola vaccine as transmission continues in the DRC and Kenya.
Front-line workers receive Ebola vaccine as transmission continues in the DRC and Kenya.
As of October 15, the DRC reported 9,277 confirmed cases and 4,478 related deaths, based on data through October 14. Transmission continues in several provinces, with Ituri the largest hotspot.
Front-line health workers received Ervebo vaccine in Beni, North Kivu, on October 16 under a compassionate-use program. Its ability to prevent Bundibugyo Ebola illness is still being studied.
New confirmed cases per week
Ebola, as it happened.
October 2026
- 16FriFront-line health workers received Ervebo vaccine in Beni, North Kivu, under a compassionate-use program.DR CongoThis week
- 16FriKenya reported a third positive case, a close relative of the first two cases.KenyaThis week
- 15ThuTwo Ebola cases were reported in North Ubangi, the DRC's eighth affected province.This week
- 14WedKenya reported a second confirmed Ebola case in a family member of the first patient.KenyaThis week
- 11SunDRC reported 9,066 confirmed cases and 4,381 confirmed deaths.This week
- 6TueKenya confirms its first case, a traveler from DRC who died.Kenya
- 2FriDeaths pass 4,000 in DRC.DR Congo
September 2026
- 11FriA case in Sud-Ubangi, after travel through Rwanda and Uganda.DR Congo
August 2026
- 23Sun5,000 confirmed cases in 100 days, faster than West Africa in 2014.
July 2026
- 31FriWHO authorizes a Phase 3 trial of the Zaire vaccine in DRC.
May 2026
- 16SatWHO declares a public health emergency of international concern.
Ebola, in brief.
Emergency- Pathogen
- Bundibugyo virus
- Spreads by
- Contact with the blood or body fluids of a sick or dead person.
- Incubation
- 2 to 21 days.
- Signs
- Fever, fatigue, vomiting and diarrhea. Bleeding in only about 1 in 10 cases.
- Vaccine
- None licensed for Bundibugyo. A Phase 3 trial of the Zaire vaccine started in August.
- Status
- WHO public health emergency of international concern since May 16.
- 1. Fruit batsThe virus lives in fruit bats in central Africa's forests.
- 2. A spilloverHandling a sick or dead animal infects a first person.
- 3. Caring for the sickBlood and body fluids infect families and health workers.
- 4. FuneralsWashing and touching the dead keeps the chains going.
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