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CDC Raises Ebola Response to Highest Level as DRC Outbreak Tops 1,155 Cases

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised its emergency readiness to Level One on June 26, 2026 in response to a rapidly expanding Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak centred in the DRC's Ituri province, which had recorded 1,155 confirmed cases and 304 deaths. No licensed vaccine exists for the Bundibugyo strain; the US deployed experimental antibody cocktail MBP134 under compassionate use protocols.