Overview
- WHO deployed 11 technical officers and shipped protective equipment, infection‑prevention supplies and a rapidly deployable isolation tent, releasing $300,000 from its emergency fund.
- Ethiopian health authorities isolated patients, launched community screening and are tracing contacts in the South Ethiopia Region.
- Cases include infected health workers, according to WHO Director‑General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
- The Omo cluster sits along the South Sudan frontier, and Africa CDC warned of potential cross‑border spread given the neighbor’s fragile health system.
- Laboratory testing continues at the Ethiopia Public Health Institute, and officials note there is no approved vaccine or specific treatment for Marburg.