There is no available vaccine or medicine for the Bundibugyo strain responsible for the outbreak, which spread undetected for weeks.

The WHO declared the Ebola disease outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, after more than 300 suspected cases and 88 deaths in Congo and two in neighboring…

Strain of virus, suspected to have killed around 80 people in recent weeks, has no approved vaccine

The virus behind the latest Ebola outbreak is the Bundibugyo virus, which is less common and there is no vaccine or treatment.

Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleAn outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo virus, a…

Eastern Congo residents sew masks at home and pray that the disease will not reach them; an American doctor who volunteered for an aid organization has tested positive and will be…

Cases set to increase, WHO warns, with infections appearing in urban centres and neighbouring Uganda

Clinical trials for treatments against Ebola Bundibugyo virus are ‘in a strong position’ to be launched quickly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda

No vaccine or treatment currently exists for the Bundibugyo Ebola strain

Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are racing to contain a new Ebola outbreak, as medical teams establish quarantine zones in densely populated communities…

Doctors battling the deadly Bundibugyo strain in DR Congo will likely have to wait months for a vaccine.

The risk assessment came as the leader of the WHO team in Congo said the outbreak, which has led to over 130 suspected deaths, could last at least another two months as aid…

Rare Bundibugyo strain of infectious disease, detected in DR Congo and Uganda, has no approved vaccine or treatment

A rare Ebola strain is spreading through the conflict-hit Democratic Republic of the Congo's east.

The rare type of Ebola, known as Bundibugyo virus, spread undetected for weeks following the first known death while authorities tested for another virus. | World News

BUNIA, Congo: Anxious health care workers in eastern Congo said Wednesday they are underprotected and undertrained in a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak of a rare type of the…

Congo’s Ebola outbreak is exposing the impact of shrinking global health funding as hospitals struggle with shortages of medicine, masks and surveillance capacity

WHO said the global risk is low

Healthcare workers and aid groups in eastern Congo have appealed for more supplies and staff to respond to the outbreak of a rare type of Ebola, as armed groups continued to…

BUNIA (AP):Anxious healthcare workers in eastern Congo said yesterday that they are underprotected and undertrained as a rare type of Ebola spreads rapidly in some of the world’s…

There are no approved virus-specific therapeutics or vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain