The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization announced a response plan to counter the Ebola outbreak.

Still, the risk to people in the United States remains low, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report Friday.

The 2026 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in DR Congo and Uganda, caused by Bundibugyo virus (Orthoebolavirus bundibugyoense), represents one of the most consequential epidemic emergencies in Africa. The current outbreak is particularly concerning because of its epidemiological and operational complexity.

Dozens of people have died and hundreds have been sickened in an Ebola outbreak centered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Americans who have high-risk exposures to Ebola in the current outbreak in Central Africa will have access to an experimental antibody treatment.

It's a virus that can strike with unrelenting force. The kind of care need to knock it out is often not fully available in a lower resource country like the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Lessons from Covid pandemic are boosting prevention and treatment efforts locally and abroad

The NCDC appeals to Nigerian governors to increase funding for health workers to prevent the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola from entering the country. Learn mo