The amazing teams around Dav Ebengo & Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, alongside the Institut National de Santé Publique and AfricaCDC have led an effort to improve understanding of the current #Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak.
Data: github.com/INRB-UMIE/Eb...
Dashboard: inrb-umie.github.io/EBOV2026_Epi...
Moritz Kraemer
🔉 CEPI is urgently accelerating the development of three investigational vaccine candidates towards clinical trials in response to the deeply concerning Bundibugyo ebolavirus epidemic.
More in the press release ⬇️
Our initial work on the potential geographic and ecological origin of the MV Hondius Andes virus outbreak showing the outbreak lineage clusters most closely with some of our new sequences from southern Chile (lead by the brilliant Lissette): virological.org/t/potential-....
Overland Aid Convoy to Gaza Blocked by Military Forces novaramedia.com/2026/05/18/o...
A land convoy delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza has been blocked outside Sirte, in the buffer zone between eastern and western Libya, with reports emerging that eastern Libyan forces nearby are prep...
Complemented by the great work by Ghafari and team one post down! virological.org/t/molecular-...
The recent outbreak aboard the MV Hondius caused by Andes virus raises two key questions [1]: (i) where do the outbreak genomes cluster geographically, and (ii) how can the phylogenetic signal be reco...
Note on data use This is an informal analysis and is not intended as a formal preprint or manuscript in its current form. This post focuses on the deeper evolutionary history of the lineage leading to...
Gotta say it’s a bit on the nose to have a ship full of wealthy white people and an outbreak that’s actually been controlled dominate global media while a major Ebola outbreak in DRC with cross boarder spread is going unnoticed.
www.npr.org/2026/05/16/g...
Health officials are working to contain a new Ebola outbreak in the DRC of a virus strain with no known vaccine.
ARTIC network has published Bundibugyo (BDBV) sequencing resources as the 2026 outbreak continues in DRC & Uganda. We have compiled guidance for labs wishing to sequence, assemble and analyse BDBV genomes: artic.network/viruses/bdbv/bdbv-sequencing-guide.html
The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.
