The Bundibugyo virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has reached 8,665 confirmed cases and 4,178 deaths, with a crude case-fatality proportion of approximately 48.2%.
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The outbreak surpassed 1,000 confirmed cases within 40 days of response activation, compared with approximately 235 days during the 2018 DRC outbreak.
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Confirmed cases have been reported in 7 DRC provinces, and additional cases occurred in Uganda, Kenya, and France.
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The CDC cited violence against health care workers, shortages of protective equipment, limited health services, and conflict-related disruptions to contact tracing as containment challenges.
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The CDC considers the risk of spread to the United States very low, and no outbreak-associated Ebola cases have been confirmed in the country.
