Ebola is back amid great concern !

The WHO organization have raised the red alarm in the DR Congo following an outbreaks in Ebola cases in both Congo and Uganda which led to 80 deaths so far.

While the UN health agency clarified on Sunday that the situation does not yet meet the criteria for a pandemic emergency, the rapid geographic spread of the Bundibugyo virus strain has sounded alarm bells across East and Central Africa. At the epicentre of the crisis is the DRC’s eastern Ituri province, where the health ministry and the WHO have tracked eighty suspected deaths and nearly two hundred and fifty suspected cases spanning at least three critical health zones, including the capital Bunia.

The declaration follows a worrying pattern of migration. According to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the outbreak originated in a high-traffic mining hub before spreading as patients sought medical attention elsewhere.

The virus has since breached major transport corridors, with laboratory-confirmed cases identified in the DRC’s capital, Kinshasa, and across the border in Uganda’s capital, Kampala. While the DRC has extensive experience managing Ebola, the region’s chronic insecurity significantly complicates containment. Rampant attacks by Islamic State-backed militants in Ituri have severely restricted surveillance and rapid response operations, leaving health workers to fight a deadly, highly contagious pathogen in the middle of an active conflict zone.