Overview
- Local authorities confirmed on Friday that a fatal Bundibugyo case reached Sud‑/South‑Ubangi after the patient travelled through Rwanda and Uganda, marking spread to a seventh province and triggering contact quarantines.
- Government and WHO totals put confirmed cases at roughly 6,800–6,950 with about 3,300 deaths, and health bodies say the epidemic is growing faster than response efforts can track and contain.
- Response operations are strained because treatment centres are at or over capacity, surveillance and contact tracing are delayed, and insecurity, mass displacement and a health‑workers strike limit access to care.
- Vaccination uses the Zaire vaccine Ervebo for frontline staff under emergency and research protocols while dedicated Bundibugyo vaccine trials are under way but dose supplies are limited.
- Health agencies warn the river and road travel route used by the recent patient raises cross‑border exposure risks and say thousands more health workers, beds and funding are needed to prevent wider regional spread.