What we know for certain is that it is already the second deadliest on record, in Africa.
Here's Forbes, with the deeply disconcerting news, just now:
. . .On January 25, 2026 a fifty-year-old woman on the outskirts of Mongbwalu, a gold-mining town in Ituri province in eastern Congo, died after vomiting blood. Her mother died six days later. Her husband fell ill and recovered. None of it was recorded as Ebola. Congo would not declare an outbreak for another four months.
The declaration came on May 15. Since then the Democratic Republic of the Congo has recorded 3,802 confirmed cases and 1,707 deaths. Twenty more across the border in Uganda bring the total to 3,822, which makes this the second-largest Ebola epidemic on record.
The virus is Bundibugyo, named for the Ugandan district where it first appeared in 2007. Bundibugyo is one of the rarer Ebola species with no licensed vaccine and no approved treatment. . . .
In mid-July the head of WHO’s emergencies program, Chikwe Ihekweazu, told reporters that “80% of new cases are outside our contact lists and so are coming to us from unknown chains of transmission.” The figure is a clue to the outbreak’s true size. It is also a slippery one. . . .
Onward, resolutely -- just the same.
Please join me, and donate if you are able:
Doctors Without Borders USA
P.O. Box 5030
Hagerstown, MD 21741-5030
There is still so much (personally) to look forward to, with joy -- in these coming weeks. . . smile.
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