With the disease still spreading five months into the epidemic, the nursery in the remote east is one of 12 receiving the children of those killed by the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever.
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Global Outbreak Tracker Oct 24, 2026‘Uganda remains Ebola-free’ Ugandan health ministry insist
UGANDA Ministry of Health has maintained that the country remained free of Ebola, as it strengthens surveillance and investigations are ongoing.
Global Outbreak Tracker Oct 24, 2026Ebola: Traveller had no symptoms before leaving Uganda — Govt
The Ugandan Ministry of Health has said that the traveller who tested positive for Bundibugyo virus disease in Nigeria did not exhibit symptoms when she departed the country.
Global Outbreak Tracker Oct 24, 2026Nigeria’s Ebola case is Swiss, and she never went near the DR Congo
GENEVA, Oct 24 — The Ebola patient in Nigeria is a Swiss woman, and the wife of a staff member at Switzerland’s embassy in Abuja, Bern said Friday.
Global Outbreak Tracker Oct 24, 2026First Nigerian Ebola Case in Current Outbreak Is Swiss National, Country Confirms
The government of Switzerland confirmed on Friday that a woman identified as the first patient in Nigeria diagnosed with Ebola Bundibugyo in the context of an ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a Ugandan-born Swiss national who had not recently visited the DRC.
Global Outbreak Tracker Oct 23, 2026CDC Ebola Declaration: All US-Bound Air Passengers Must Now Attest
The CDC is requiring all passengers on international flights to the United States to declare they have not visited the DRC within 21 days.
Global Outbreak Tracker Oct 23, 2026One US measles outbreak is proving particularly deadly. Here’s why
An ongoing measles outbreak in Pennsylvania has quickly become the largest and deadliest in the United States in more than 30 years.
Global Outbreak Tracker Oct 23, 2026Ebola outbreak spreads to five countries as South Africa steps up vigilance
Africa is currently battling the most geographically widespread Ebola outbreak in history, driven by a hyper-rapid surge of cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that is outpacing all previous epidemics.