But No Confirmed Case In Liberia

Liberian health authorities say they remain vigilant in the wake of confirmed report of the deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the issuing of a Health Alert this weekend.

“There is currently no confirmed case in Liberia,” the Liberian Health Ministry said in a Health Alert issued in Monrovia.

This comes in the wake of reports that the World Health Organization (WHO) is rapidly scaling up support to the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo following confirmation of an outbreak of Ebola Bundibugyo in the country’s north-eastern Ituri Province.

Laboratory analysis conducted by the National Institute of Biomedical Research (INRB), the country’s reference laboratory in the capital Kinshasa, confirmed the Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo species in 8 of 13 samples* collected from suspected cases linked to a cluster of severe illness and deaths reported in Mongbwalu and Rwampara health zones in Ituri Province. The Bundibugyo species was first identified in 2007 in Bundibugyo district in western Uganda, during which 131 cases were reported with 42 deaths (case fatality rate of 32%), a WHO press release said on Friday, May 15, 2026.