Anonymous11 days ago
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo's 2026 Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak, suspected case counts plummeted from 906 to 116 as laboratory testing expanded — but confirmed cases simultaneously surged from 12 to 321, revealing that the vast majority of suspected cases were other diseases misidentified due to weak diagnostic infrastructure. The dramatic reclassification raises urgent questions about the reliability of early outbreak data, the human cost of false designations, and whether a gutted international aid architecture can contain a virus for which no vaccine exists.