Information brief Updated: 26 August 2026 Primary sources: DRC INSP/COUSP, ECDC, Uganda MoH, WHO Language: English · Čeština

Ebola caused by Bundibugyo virus, 2026

Case and death trajectory chart

An official series for the DRC according to publicly traceable detailed INSP/COUSP SitReps. The chart works with confirmed cases and deaths among confirmed cases; suspected cases and suspected deaths are not included in the series.

Site authors: Jan Pačes (ORCID) and Michaela Liegertová (ORCID). Affiliations: Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Michaela Liegertová is also at the Faculty of Science, J. E. Purkyně University (UJEP).

In collaboration with the Military Health Institute (VZÚ).

English edition — current snapshot. This chart mirrors the Czech edition as of 26 August 2026. Case numbers change quickly; for the latest figures see the continuously updated Czech page or WHO, ECDC and Africa CDC.

How to read the chart: this is the trajectory of reported confirmed cases and deaths among confirmed cases in the DRC, not when the infections actually occurred. INSP repeatedly points out that the DHIS2 database is being cleaned and harmonised; daily changes may therefore include retrospective laboratory confirmation or revised case classification.

Chart data cut-off: the series ends with the latest public detailed report, SitRep 102 with data as of 24 August. SitReps 101–102 have been added without reconstructing missing days. See Current situation for the latest overview.

5,656 confirmed casesLatest cumulative point: INSP/COUSP SitRep 102, data as of 24 August 2026.
2,715 deaths among confirmed casesSuspected deaths are not included.
80 cumulative pointsPublicly traceable SitRep points including SitReps 59, 62, 64–74 and 77–102; missing days are not recalculated.

Daily reporting in the available SitReps

The case bars are the item “nouveaux cas confirmés”. The death bars show newly reported deaths among confirmed cases, where the SitRep states that metric separately.

Newly reported confirmed cases Newly reported deaths among confirmed cases

On checking, SitReps N°21, N°29, N°43, N°45 and N°63 were not found as public entries in the current INSP series. The missing days are therefore not interpolated. For SitRep 46, the daily case bar uses ECDC’s reported increase of 26 newly confirmed cases compared with the previous public update as of 28 June; it is not calculated as the difference between the last two plotted points. For SitReps 47–59, 60–62, 64–68 and 72–102, daily values are taken directly from the SitReps. For SitReps 53–58 and 60, no daily death bar is drawn because the reports do not separate that metric comparably.

Cumulative deaths among confirmed cases

X axis: status as of date. Y axis: cumulative deaths among confirmed cases.

Cumulative deaths among confirmed cases

Table of values

Status as of date SitRep Cumulative confirmed cases Cumulative deaths among confirmed cases Newly reported confirmed cases Newly reported deaths among confirmed cases Source

Sources and limitations

The series is built from the official SitReps of the DRC INSP/COUSP for the current 17th epidemic of Ebola disease in the DRC (in the original MVB, maladie à virus Bundibugyo). Uganda is not included in the daily series because its public dashboard does not provide a historical daily series traceable in the same way. The dashboard as of 28 July separately reports 20 confirmed cases, 2 deaths, 18 recovered, 0 current admissions, 0 active contacts under follow-up and 821 contacts with completed 21-day follow-up.

SitReps 86–102 state their daily values directly. SitRep 89 reports 118 cases while the cumulative total rises by 117 because of ongoing harmonisation; SitRep 93 reports 101 cases while the cumulative total rises by 102 because one earlier case had been omitted. SitReps 101–102 directly report case/death pairs of 70/38 and 72/35; death values sum community deaths and confirmed deaths in treatment centres. SitRep 102 newly lists Ganga health zone in Bas-Uele. The bars therefore use directly reported daily values rather than differences between cumulative totals. Older source limitations and discrepancies are documented in detail in the accompanying README.

Reference sources: DRC INSP/COUSP SitRep 102, SitRep 101, SitRep 100, ECDC outbreak page, Uganda Ministry of Health dashboard and WHO daily epidemiological update 20260824. Individual SitRep links are listed in the table.

FAIR · data layer

Download the chart data

The table used by the chart is also available as a standalone file. Each row includes the data cut-off date, SitRep number and source link; missing values are not interpolated.

Data cut-off
24 August 2026
Curation
80 traceable points · reviewed 26 August 2026
Format
UTF-8 CSV + JSON Schema
Licence
CC BY 4.0 for the original curation

The CSV contains the same series as the chart; an automated check compares all 80 rows with the values embedded in the page. The licence applies to the original curation, not to the linked source documents.