Ebola Bundibugyo Emergency Committee Due to Meet a Third Time
ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins70% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 70%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 5 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidenceNo date is announced: the committee met for the first time on 22 May and again on "18 August 2026" ("met for the second time to reassess the situation"), and WHO's[1][2][3][4][5] IHR Q&A says Emergency Committees "are reconvened at least every three months", so mid-November is estimated.
WHO's IHR Emergency Committee on the Bundibugyo Ebola epidemic is due to reconvene, roughly three months after its 18 August meeting, to say whether the emergency still stands. WHO counts 7,890 confirmed cases and 3,799 deaths in the DRC as of 23 September 2026.
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