Ebola

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Bad News for Americans Trying to Get Home From Congo

Citizens must wait 21 days in third country before returning to US from Ebola-stricken nation

(Newser) - Americans in the Democratic Republic of Congo won't be able to fly straight home, at least for now. Per Reuters , the Trump administration is moving to put US citizens currently in Congo—or those who've recently departed—on a "do not board" list, a White House official...

US Citizen Tests Positive for Ebola
US Citizen
Tests Positive
for Ebola
Jul 13, 2026 2:00 AM CDT

US Citizen Tests Positive for Ebola

Patient works for humanitarian organization in Congo

(Newser) - A US citizen working for a humanitarian organization in Congo has tested positive for the Ebola virus, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday, as the Central African country struggles to contain the swelling outbreak. The CDC said it was working with the person's employer,...

As Ebola Outbreak Spreads, Health Workers Threaten Strike

Deaths in Congo top 500, with 1.5K confirmed cases

(Newser) - At least 500 people have died out of over 1,500 confirmed cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak, authorities said, as frontline workers threatened to go on strike on Monday over unpaid benefits and poor working conditions. The outbreak has recorded 1,561 cases, including 506...

US Sends Experimental Ebola Drug to Congo

Initially, it was reserved only for Americans

(Newser) - Washington is quietly widening who gets access to a new Ebola drug. After initially reserving experimental antibody treatment MBP134 for Americans exposed to the virus, the US is now sending undisclosed quantities to the Democratic Republic of Congo for use in clinical trials and "compassionate use," says a...

France Confirms Its First Ebola Case
Europe Sees Its
First Ebola Case
Jun 24, 2026 9:40 AM CDT

Europe Sees Its First Ebola Case

Doctor returning from DR Congo isolated; officials say risk is low

(Newser) - France has recorded its first Ebola case: a doctor back from a humanitarian mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo who is now hospitalized in a specialized unit and in stable condition, officials said Wednesday. The health ministry emphasized that the risk to the wider public is "very low," but...

Surge of Suspected Ebola Deaths Suggests Fast Spread

Development at crowded camp doesn't bode well for containment in Congo

(Newser) - A spike in deaths at a crowded camp in eastern Congo has authorities worried Ebola is moving faster than they can track it. At least 30 people have died since early May in the Kigonze camp outside Bunia—far above the usual one to three deaths a month—with many...

How Congo's Ebola Outbreak Could Become the Deadliest
World Needs to Find the
'Will' to Contain Ebola
OPINION
Jun 9, 2026 10:10 AM CDT

World Needs to Find the 'Will' to Contain Ebola

Ex-USAID official says it will be 'enormous' task to stem what may be the worst outbreak ever

(Newser) - A veteran of past Ebola fights is sounding an alarm about the one now unfolding in central Africa—and he argues it could surpass anything the world has seen. Writing for the New York Times , Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International and a former senior USAID official, says the current...

Ebola Numbers Suddenly Look More Hopeful

Suspected cases in Congo drop from more than 900 to 116, says the WHO

(Newser) - The threat is far from over, but the number of Ebola cases in central Africa just shifted dramatically downward. The World Health Organization on Tuesday confirmed 321 infections and 116 suspected cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo, reports Reuters . It's the latter number that's so striking: The...

JFK Airport to Start Screening for Ebola

Travelers from African nations hit by the new outbreak will be evaluated

(Newser) - New York's busiest international gateway is temporarily adding an Ebola checkpoint. JFK airport will start screening travelers who recently spent time in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, or Uganda, where a fast-growing outbreak of a rare Ebola strain, Bundibugyo, is centered, reports NBC News . Similar screenings are...

Kenyan Court Blocks US Plan on Ebola

Move to open makeshift treatment center for Americans infected in Congo outbreak is on hold

(Newser) - A Kenyan court just put the brakes on a US plan to open a quarantine center in the country for Americans exposed to Ebola. The court in Nairobi on Friday temporarily halted the opening of a US-built field hospital at Laikipia Air Base, reports the Washington Post . The US had...

The WHO Said Not to Do It. Uganda Just Did

Country closes border with Congo amid Ebola surge

(Newser) - Ugandan authorities on Wednesday ordered the closure of the border with Congo "with immediate effect" as cases surge there of a rare type of Ebola and as others emerge at home, per the AP . A local Ebola task force led by Vice President Jesca Alupo made the decision after a...

US Will Send Ebola-Exposed Citizens to Kenya: Sources

Critics warn overseas care may offer lower-quality Ebola treatment

(Newser) - Americans who may have been exposed to Ebola won't be flown back to the US for monitoring and treatment, but to Kenya instead, under a Trump administration plan described to the New York Times by three people familiar with it. The move breaks with past practice, when exposed US...

New Challenge for Ebola Doctors: Fleeing Patients

Attacks, mistrust about the disease hinder efforts to contain outbreak in Congo

(Newser) - Health workers battling Ebola in Congo's northeast are facing a new threat: Their own treatment centers are coming under attack, and patients are bolting. In Ituri province, where the current outbreak began, at least three assaults on health facilities have been reported, including two this past weekend at Mongbwalu...

Ebola Outbreak Is Becoming 'Overwhelming'

Conflict, underfunded clinics hinder response in Congo

(Newser) - Hospitals that were already stretched thin in eastern Congo are now buckling under a fast-expanding Ebola outbreak. There were 904 suspected infections as of Sunday, the Congolese ministry of communication said, per the Guardian , while the World Health Organization previously described at least 177 deaths. Specialized treatment units are often...

18 Possible Ebola Patients Flee When Mob Burns Health Center

Attack is the second on a treatment site in 3 days

(Newser) - Residents of a town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo attacked and burned part of a health center where people are being treated for the virus, and 18 people suspected of infection fled, a hospital director said Saturday. It was the second such attack in the...

Congo Limits Funerals During Ebola Outbreak

Gatherings of more than 50 are prohibited

(Newser) - Authorities in northeastern Congo banned funeral wakes and gatherings of more 50 people on Friday in an effort to curb a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak in a region where medical workers have struggled with a lack of resources and pushback from angry residents. The World Health Organization said that the...

WHO: Ebola Outbreak in Congo Is 'Spreading Rapidly'

World health body upgrades risk assessment to 'very high' at the national level

(Newser) - The head of the World Health Organization said Friday that the Ebola outbreak in Congo is "spreading rapidly" and now poses a "very high" risk at the national level. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the UN health agency was revising upward to "very high" its assessment...

Residents Burn Ebola Center in Congo

Officials say residents were angry about being unable to retrieve friend's body

(Newser) - People set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on Thursday after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man, a witness and a senior police officer said, as fear and anger grow over a health crisis...

US Pullback Blamed for Escalating Ebola Outbreak

Foreign aid cuts leave Congo, Uganda scrambling for resources

(Newser) - US boots-on-the-ground help in major disease outbreaks used to be a given. Not this time, say global health experts watching Ebola spread across eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and into Uganda's capital. The Bundibugyo strain, with no vaccine or treatment, is thought to have been spreading for weeks , if...

Captain Says He Can't Land in US. Then Came the Masks

Air France flight to Detroit diverted due to unpermitted Congo passenger amid Ebola outbreak

(Newser) - A trans-Atlantic flight bound for Detroit instead touched down in Montreal on Wednesday after US officials refused it entry over a passenger from Congo, where an Ebola outbreak is underway. US Customs and Border Protection said it blocked Air France Flight 378, which originated in Paris, from landing at Detroit'...

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