MONDAY, MAY 18, 2026 The American patient will be medically evacuated from the Congo and taken to Germany for care, Satish Pillai at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, adding six other Americans are in the process of being evacuated from the area for treatment or monitoring. 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. Jean Kaseya, director general of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, tells BBC News more than 100 people have died from the Ebola outbreak and there are at least 395 suspected cases.SUNDAY, 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. The CDC says it is working to extract a “small number of Americans who are directly affected by this outbreak” from the Congo.SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2026 The World Health Organization declares the outbreak an "extraordinary event” that could pose a public health risk to multiple nations and possibly require a coordinated international response in the near future.The WHO announces at least 80 people have died, including one patient who died in Uganda after traveling to the neighboring country from the Congo. FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2026Laboratory tests confirm the outbreak is of the Bundibugyo strain, for which there is no vaccine, and the same strain that carried a 32% mortality rate during a 2007 outbreak. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention confirms an Ebola outbreak in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, reporting the disease has sickened 246 people and killed 65, and says officials are worried about further infections due to frequent travel in the area, few resources to combat spread and difficulties with contract tracing in the remote region. This is a developing story and will be updated.