The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has already recorded 1,500 infections.
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- The 1,500 figure refers to confirmed cases as of early July 2026 in the Bundibugyo virus outbreak declared in May 2026 in DRC and Uganda; the outbreak subsequently grew far larger (by mid-August 2026, cases surpassed 4,000 and deaths exceeded 2,000 in the DRC), so the figure is a snapshot valid for the session date, not the full epidemic.
- The MEP's additional assertion of '500 deaths' was not independently verified in the sources retrieved for this period; the verified metric here is the 1,500 infection/case count.
- The ECDC source retrieved contains data as of 28 July 2026 (after the session date) and concerns Uganda (20 cases), provided only as contextual corroboration that this is the 2026 Bundibugyo outbreak.
- The primary WHO situation report was located via ReliefWeb (UN OCHA platform republishing the official WHO report); the exact publication date of the report was not retrievable from the search results, though it covers the period immediately preceding the session date.