Ebola in Ituri
As of 4 Oct 2026, Ituri province has recorded 6,450 confirmed cases and 2,968 deaths since the start of the outbreak, a case fatality rate of 46.0%. Cases are spread across 28 of the province's 36 health zones.
The country's most affected province, with 75.0% of confirmed cases. The outbreak started here: officially notified on 8 May 2026, declared on 15 May. Latest case reported on 4 Oct 2026.
Health zone map
- Confirmed cases
- Deaths
- Province
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New cases (Ituri)
New deaths (Ituri)
Place of death
in the community or in a treatment centre, week by weekTwo confirmed deaths in three occur outside treatment centres. That share says what the response does not reach: a patient who dies at home was neither isolated nor treated, and exposed their family to the end.
Affected health zones in Ituri
| Health zone | Cumulative cases | Cumulative deaths | Fatality rate | New cases (24h) | New deaths (24h) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bunia | 1,779 | 584 | 32.8% | +10 | +7 |
| Rwampara | 1,114 | 380 | 34.1% | +2 | +2 |
| Nizi | 786 | 282 | 35.9% | 0 | 0 |
| Mongbwalu | 707 | 335 | 47.4% | +1 | +1 |
| Mangala | 365 | 157 | 43.0% | 0 | +1 |
| Nia-Nia | 311 | 175 | 56.3% | +1 | +1 |
| Lita | 294 | 147 | 50.0% | +3 | +1 |
| Bambu | 208 | 46 | 22.1% | +4 | 0 |
| Mandima | 176 | 84 | 47.7% | 0 | 0 |
| Komanda | 175 | 107 | 61.1% | 0 | 0 |
| Nyankunde | 130 | 37 | 28.5% | 0 | 0 |
| Fataki | 83 | 31 | 37.3% | 0 | 0 |
| Tchomia | 76 | 25 | 32.9% | 0 | 0 |
| Damas | 40 | 9 | 22.5% | 0 | 0 |
| Kilo | 38 | 12 | 31.6% | 0 | 0 |
| Mambasa | 37 | 16 | 43.2% | +1 | +1 |
| Lolwa | 34 | 9 | 26.5% | 0 | 0 |
| Drodro | 15 | 7 | 46.7% | 0 | 0 |
| Logo | 13 | 5 | 38.5% | 0 | 0 |
| Rimba | 13 | 5 | 38.5% | 0 | 0 |
| Aungba | 12 | 5 | 41.7% | 0 | 0 |
| Adja | 11 | 1 | 9.1% | 0 | 0 |
| Gethy | 9 | 5 | 55.6% | +2 | +2 |
| Aru | 8 | 6 | 75.0% | 0 | 0 |
| Ariwara | 8 | 2 | 25.0% | 0 | 0 |
| Mahagi | 4 | 1 | 25.0% | 0 | 0 |
| Boga | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | 0 | 0 |
| Kambala | 2 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 |
A province's total can differ from the sum of its health zones: the bulletins count cases and deaths not yet assigned to a zone separately. The site leaves them where the source puts them.
The response
Alerts
what surveillance receives, and what it keepsAn alert is a report — a sick person, a death, a rumour — that teams must go and check. Roughly one in five is validated as a suspected case and sampled. Many alerts means surveillance is looking; the validated share says what it finds.
Laboratory
samples tested and positive resultsPositivity is the share of samples that confirm the virus. It measures how well tests are targeted, not how many people are infected: when it rises while the number of samples stalls, only the obvious patients are being sampled and others are being missed.
Contact follow-up
exposed people, seen or lost from viewEvery confirmed case leaves contacts to follow for twenty-one days. Their number is the size of the outbreak as the response sees it; the share seen each day is the grip it keeps on it — below the threshold, exposed people transmit undetected.
Treatment centres
patients hospitalised and beds availableA saturated treatment centre pushes patients back into the community, where deaths occur outside care. Occupancy relates hospitalised patients — confirmed and suspected — to the beds the bulletin declares; it exceeds 100% where patients are placed outside the planned beds.
Vaccination
who is vaccinated and in which provincesThe Ervebo vaccine is reserved for those most exposed to the virus: health-care staff first, then other front-line workers — hygienists, safe burial teams — and, in Bas-Uélé, high-risk contacts under a so-called compassionate vaccination scheme. The campaign began on 26 August 2026 in Buta, then in Kisangani the next day; Ituri published its first vaccinations on 23 September.
The main challenges mentioned in the official bulletins
Timeline in Ituri
- Official milestone
- Geographic spread
- Threshold crossed