Overview
- Mid-July health authorities reported more than 2,000 confirmed Ebola infections and 754 deaths, with roughly 753 patients still in isolation and 366 recovered.
- The World Health Organization says reported totals likely understate the real toll and could be two to four times higher because surveillance is incomplete and many cases are missed.
- About 90 percent of registered cases are concentrated in a conflict-affected province on the Uganda border where access to care is limited and funerary transmission is common.
- WHO officials say at least 80 percent of new infections stem from transmission chains not on contact lists, and Médecins Sans Frontières warns the epidemic is expanding faster and farther than responders can track.
- There is no approved vaccine or therapy for the Bundibugyo Ebola variant, and a clinical trial of Gilead’s antiviral Obeldesivir began in mid-July as authorities request urgent international medical support.