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This BVD outbreak is now the largest Ebola virus disease outbreak ever recorded in DRC, surpassing the 2018-2020 outbreak's 3,317 cases.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because an Ebola flare-up that jumps a porous DRC border into a city or refugee corridor can overwhelm fragile health systems fast, and the only real brakes are limited vaccine stockpiles and rapid-response teams that take days to deploy.
Part of the monitored dynamic Ebola Outbreak Tracking · VUCA INDEX 56/100
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- A humanitarian doctor tested positive for Ebola in France, the first case on French territory, after flying from DRC on 23 June 2026.
- The French Ebola patient recovered after two negative PCR tests and was discharged, French Health Minister Stéphanie Rist said.
- Five other passengers on the doctor's Air France flight were identified as possible contacts and placed in isolation.
- An Ebola case was recently confirmed in Kisangani, a major DRC city 600 km from the outbreak epicentre.
- The US placed itself on alert over the DRC Ebola outbreak, implementing stepped-up surveillance and entry restrictions on airline travelers.
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