DRC Launches Ebola Vaccination Campaign for Frontline Workers in Kisangani

DRC's Minister of Public Health launched an ERVEBO vaccine immunization campaign for frontline health workers in Kisangani on Aug 27, targeting the outbreak's spread into Tshopo, Bas-Uele and Haut-Uele provinces. The same day's WHO/ECDC situation update, reflecting data through Aug 26, put the Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak at 5,794 confirmed cases and 2,786 deaths — up 81 cases and 42 deaths from the prior report — with 843 patients hospitalized in isolation and roughly 60 of 151 health zones across six provinces affected.