Anonymousabout 8 hours ago
The Democratic Republic of Congo's third-largest Ebola outbreak — caused by the rare Bundibugyo strain, for which no vaccine exists — has killed more than 130 people and infected over 500 as of May 2026, spreading to Uganda and triggering a WHO public health emergency declaration. Public health experts say an 80% drop in US humanitarian aid to the DRC degraded surveillance networks that might have detected the virus weeks earlier, though the administration disputes this claim and the outbreak's severity is compounded by armed conflict, displacement, and the absence of any licensed countermeasure against this particular strain.