Ebola emergency in DR Congo and Uganda continues to expand

Albis · 2 Jun 2026

Health authorities report hundreds of confirmed Ebola cases in DR Congo and a smaller number in Uganda, with international agencies mobilising screening, financing and cross-border preparedness

• • An expanding Ebola emergency in conflict-affected, mobile border regions is a direct test of international outbreak containment.
• • Public-health transmission chain.
• • The CDC also listed one probable case and one probable death in Uganda.
• • The ECDC update, also dated June 1, gave lower DRC figures from a May 31 DRC Ministry of Health publication: 282 confirmed cases, 42 confirmed deaths and 220 suspected cases under.