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Health Ministry prepares Israel’s hospitals in event of Ebola case amid Central Africa outbreak

The ministry believes that the risk of an Ebola outbreak in Israel remains low, but has started preparations in the event that someone suspected to be infected arrives in the country.

JUNE 7, 2026|ByDR. ITAY GAL

Medical teams in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, May 2026

Red Cross workers prepare to lower the coffin of Dr Tibenderana Katho Blaise who worked at the Centre Medical Evangelique (CME) in Hoho commune and died of Ebola virus, at the Nyamurongo cemetery in Bunia town, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 26, 2026.

Scientists race to develop Ebola vaccine amid DRC outbreak

Researchers aim to stop the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in northeastern DRC by fast-tracking a vaccine using a proven viral-vector platform.

JUNE 4, 2026|ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Demonstrators gather near a barricade they created during a protest against a U.S.-backed Ebola quarantine plan on the establishment of a 50-bed facility at a Kenyan air force base that was intended to host Americans exposed to Ebola, in Nanyuki town, in Laikipia County, Kenya June 1, 2026.

Two people killed in Kenya protest against US Ebola quarantine site plan, organizer, sources say

Kenyan President William Ruto defended a US-backed Ebola quarantine facility at a military base after two people were killed during protests.

JUNE 2, 2026|ByREUTERS

Bahati Erasto Musanga, provincial Governor walks with other officials, as they leave the Rodolphe Merieux Laboratory, National Biomedical Research Institute (INRB), where samples from suspected Ebola cases are examined, as part of the response to the epidemic in Goma, North Kivu province of the Demo

Latest outbreak of Ebola in central Africa prompts global health emergency

DRC and WHO officials have identified over 500 cases in the DRC and recorded one confirmed death from the disease in neighboring Uganda as of Wednesday.

MAY 20, 2026|ByASHER SMITH

Three US citizens sentenced to death in Congo over role in failed coup

All three were found guilty of criminal conspiracy, terrorism and other charges, and sentenced to death in a ruling read out on live TV.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024ByREUTERS

Benjamin Zalman Polun, Marcel Malanga and Taylor Thompson, American citizens suspected, along with a group of over fifty other people, to be involved in an attempted coup in Congo, wait for the beginning of their trial in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, June 7, 2024.

Deadly new strain of monkeypox in Africa virus raises concerns of spread

Since 2023, the Congo has reported an unprecedented number of infections, which has begun to spread to other countries. However, no cases outside of the continent have been reported so far.

MAY 19, 2024ByDR. ITAY GAL