Infectious Disease For Nineteen Years, Bundibugyo Was a Footnote in the Ebola Family. It Has Killed More Than 3,000 People Since Congo Confirmed It in May.
Congo confirmed a little-known Ebola cousin on May 15. By September it had reached 61 health zones, killed nearly half of its confirmed patients, and traveled abroad in infected and evacuated people, and the celebrated Ebola vaccine was never built to stop it.
By Lena Marshall · September 21, 2026