JUNE 24, 2026French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu says he is monitoring the situation "very closely" and that the doctor has been isolated since arriving in France.

JUNE 16, 2026Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya says that unless the outbreak is contained soon, "it will ​be worse" than any Ebola outbreak before it, including previous outbreaks in Congo, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra ​Leone.

WHO Incident Manager Dr. Marie-Roseline Belizaire tells CBS News “we are missing cases" as Ebola still spreads undetected among the population of Congo: "One month after the outbreak has been declared, I'm still feeling concerned," she said.

JUNE 6, 2026Dr. Peter Stafford, who worked with a missionary group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where most of the outbreak’s cases are located, was released from Charite University Hospital in Berlin, according to a statement.

JUNE 5, 2026WHO Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus said the $518 million plan draws on lessons learned from previous Ebola outbreaks and "provides a pathway to broadly strengthen Africa’s capacity to prevent, detect and respond to future health threats."

The WHO reports 19 confirmed cases and 2 confirmed deaths from Ebola in Uganda.

June 4The WHO reports 452 confirmed cases and 82 confirmed deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

JUNE 3, 2026The U.S. Embassy Kenya says officials are still working with the Kenyan government to find a way to open a planned quarantine and treatment facility for Americans in the country, despite a court order stopping the plan and protests that have killed two people as locals argue such a facility would put an unfair and dangerous health burden on the small, densely populated town of Nanyuki.

JUNE 2, 2026Dr. Mehmet Oz , administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, says the U.S. will set up “testing tools and mechanisms” to screen for Ebola at airports expected to see an influx of travelers from around the globe for the upcoming FIFA World Cup.

Kenya’s High Court extends for another three weeks an order pausing construction of a the quarantine and treatment facility at Laikipia Air Base.

Two people are killed during protests at the airbase after police reportedly opened fire.

Kenyan President William Ruto defends the proposed facility in an early morning post on X, saying it was part of a “broader national preparedness system” and has previously said the facility would also serve Kenyans.

There are 321 confirmed cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the WHO said in an update, as well as 116 suspected cases—down from over 1,100 suspected cases previously reported by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

At least 48 people have died from the virus and only six recovered in the central African nation.

Public health officials in Uganda confirmed six more cases, bringing the country’s total caseload to 15, while officials follow up with 668 known contacts with confirmed cases. One person has died in Uganda from Ebola.

JUNE 1, 2026CEPI, one of the early investors in a COVID vaccine, tells Reuters the money will be distributed to pharmaceutical giant Moderna, a group of researchers at the University of Oxford and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, all of which are working to develop new Ebola vaccines that could be ready for clinical trials in a matter of months.

A patient who traveled to Italy from Congo with symptoms consistent with Ebola tests negative for the disease, one of three travelers to Italy and Brazil who frightened health officials by showing symptoms of the Ebola virus.

Hundreds of young people in Kenya protest against the United States' plan to build an Ebola quarantine and treatment center at Laikipia Air Base for Americans who are exposed to the disease: “This will expose our people to Ebola,” one leader told the Associated Press.

Ghebreyesus says patients who seek healthcare as quickly as possible after symptoms appear can survive the Bundibugyo variant of Ebola, for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment.

MAY 31, 2026Two patients suspected of having Ebola in Brazil test positive for other diseases—one instead resting positive for meningitis and the other for malaria—but local health authorities warn those diagnoses do not rule out the possibility of Ebola.

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says suspected cases of Ebola have risen to more than 1,100 in Congo and Uganda, and the suspected death toll is nearly 250.

Ghebreyesus says five patients in Africa have recovered after being infected with Ebola.

MAY 30, 2026Kenya’s government says it will push ahead with plans to establish the Ebola quarantine center despite a high court's ruling blocking the move, and Kenya’s Ministry of Health says it will help to “strengthen monitoring, isolation and emergency response capacity.”

Ghebreyesus visits Bunia, where WHO is opening a treatment center, and says in a statement he updated the prime minister on the the agency’s “coordination and collaboration with multiple partners in support of the government-led response.”

MAY 29, 2026Reports emerge that the Kenyan court issued an order—with no end date—temporarily suspending the establishment of an Ebola quarantine center. Health officials in Kenya have criticized the plan to build such a facility for foreigners in a nation that has never had a recorded case of Ebola: “This quarantine center is American-focused. There are no plans for Kenyans who get infected by Ebola,” Davji Atellah, secretary general of the local doctors union, told the New York Times.

The World Health Organization announces the first recovery of a patient confirmed to have been infected with Ebola during the ongoing outbreak in Congo.

New York’s John F. Kennedy airport, the busiest American airport for international arrivals, opens as the fourth US airport through which passengers who have been to Congo, Uganda or South Sudan within the last 21 days will be allowed to enter the United States after submitting to health screenings, according to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.

MAY 28, 2026The number of suspected cases in the Ebola outbreak rises to 1,084 and there have been more than 250 deaths.

Ghebreyesus travels to Congo and, in an open letter to residents bearing the brunt of a deadly Ebola outbreak, asked local militias to declare a ceasefire and pleaded with young people to “share what you know about Ebola” and “help break the fear and silence that allow this virus to spread.”

Ghebreyesus says his agency is working to scale up Ebola diagnostic capacities in Congo in an effort to identify cases earlier and stop the rapidly spreading disease, and also referenced the challenges health officials face in the region including a decades-long ethnic conflict, misinformation and distrust.

MAY 27, 2026President Donald Trump’s administration confirms it is building a quarantine and treatment center in Kenya where Americans who are evacuated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the center of the Ebola outbreak, will quarantine and, if needed, be treated at the Kenyan center "without the risks of a lengthy transport back to the US," the White House said, a stark contrast from past Ebola outbreaks in which U.S. citizens were brought home for treatment in specialized medical units.

Jennifer Nuzzo, the director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health, tells The Guardian of the move: “It is shocking to me that the administration is looking to prevent Americans from coming home to receive the proven world-class care that our taxpayer-funded biocontainment and treatment units are equipped to provide.”

Officials in Uganda order the closure of its border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo despite guidance from the WHO that says such measures "are usually implemented out of fear and have no basis in science."

Ghebreyesus warns the DRC is in danger of a "catastrophic collision of disease and conflict" and urges an immediate ceasefire between local militias: “We cannot build community trust or isolate the sick while bombs are falling,” he said.

MAY 26, 2026Americans who were exposed to an ongoing Ebola outbreak in Africa will be sent to Kenya for observation and treatment by specially trained Public Health Service officers, the New York Times reported, a stark contrast from those exposed to past Ebola outbreaks and were brought back to the United States to be treated in specialized medical units.

The IRC warns that conflict in the region, rapid spread and massive funding cuts to global health programs could cause the ongoing Ebola crisis to outpace that of the 2018-2020 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which killed more than 2,290 people.

Dr. Peter Stafford, an American missionary who contracted Ebola while working in Congo and is now being treated in Germany, is “doing a lot better,” his college and fellow evacuee tells the Washington Post.

Researchers in England say they're months away from clinical trials and animal testing has started for a new experimental Ebola vaccine that could help tackle the ongoing emergency.

Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston opens as the third U.S. airport able to conduct Ebola health screenings, and passengers who've visited certain African nations in the last 21 days are now required to be checked for symptoms at airports in Houston, Atlanta or Washington D.C. before they can travel within the country.

MAY 25, 2026The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention warns 10 African countries are now considered to be at risk amid an ongoing Ebola outbreak and World Health Organization officials called for international cooperation, cautioning “no single country can respond to this magnitude of outbreak alone.”

At a meeting of health leaders from across the continent, Africa CDC Director General Dr. Jean Kaseya warns, “This is too much. We cannot afford to have more Africans dying."

Ghebreyesus warns, “at the moment, the ​epidemic is outpacing us.”

MAY 24, 2026A group of young men stormed a hospital treating Ebola patients in DCR and opened fire while attempting to reclaim the bodies of loved ones, according to the Associated Press, marking the third attack on Ebola treatment facilities in four days (it was not immediately clear if anyone was hurt).

MAY 23, 2026Unidentified attackers burn down a tent being used to treat Ebola victims in Mongbwalu, a town in the DRC’s Ituri Province, and at least 18 people with suspected cases of Ebola fled during the attack.

MAY 21, 2026 Witnesses tell AP that a treatment center and the body of a person inside were set on fire by locals who became angry when they weren't allowed to retrieve the body of a friend who'd died (contact with the body of an Ebola victim is an easy way for the disease to spread, and authorities are handling burials whenever possible in the region).

MAY 20, 2026 An Air France flight headed for Detroit is diverted to Montreal after border patrol agents in France mistakenly allowed a passenger to board the flight in violation of new travel rules barring U.S. entry to non-citizens who have been in Uganda, DCR or South Sudan in the last 21 days.

MAY 18, 2026 President Donald Trump says he is “concerned” about Ebola when asked about the outbreak at the White House, but the CDC says the ongoing risk to the American public is “low.”

The CDC and the Department of Homeland Security announce new travel restrictions related to the Ebola outbreak, including enhanced public health screening for people arriving from affected areas and entry restrictions for non-U.S. passport holders who have been in Uganda, the Congo or South Sudan in the last 21 days.

MAY 17, 2026 Citing unnamed sources, Stat News reports several Americans had "high-risk exposures" to Ebola while working in the Congo and says one has developed symptoms consistent with the disease.

May 15, 2026The Africa CDC confirms an Ebola outbreak in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and laboratory tests confirm the outbreak is of the Bundibugyo strain, for which there is no vaccine.