Ebola in Africa: 11,254 confirmed cases and 5,505 deaths in DR Congo, real-time tracker

As of 12 November 2026, 11,254 confirmed cases, 451 of them in the last seven days, and 5,505 confirmed deaths, according to the health ministry's situation reports. The outbreak, caused by Bundibugyo virus, was declared on 15 May 2026.

Through direct contact with the blood, secretions or bodily fluids of a sick or dead person, or with objects they have soiled. An infected person is not contagious until symptoms begin. Care without protection and burials where the body is touched are the main occasions of infection.

First fever, severe fatigue, muscle pain, headache and sore throat — easily mistaken for malaria — then vomiting, diarrhoea, organ failure and sometimes bleeding. Only a laboratory test confirms the disease.

From 2 to 21 days between infection and the first symptoms — which is why a patient's contacts are followed for 21 days.

No. The licensed Ebola vaccine (Ervebo) protects against Zaire virus, not Bundibugyo virus, and no specific treatment is approved for the latter. The response relies on rapid case detection, isolation, contact tracing and safe burials.

Forty-two days — twice the maximum incubation period — after the last patient has tested negative twice or been buried, with no new case in between.