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Africa CDC has mobilised about US$1.5 million, 10 experts and equipment worth about US$350,000 for Kenya's Ebola response, it said on 27 October.
Health officials are investigating whether the first Ebola patients confirmed in Kenya and Nigeria interacted at Uganda's Entebbe airport on 3 October; the link is unconfirmed, the Associated Press reported on 22 October 2026.
Uganda's Ministry of Health said on 20 October that the Ebola patient confirmed in Nigeria passed through the country in early October, but that this does not show she was infected there, Xinhua reported on 21 October 2026.
Kenya's Ministry of Health said on 17 October that 128 of the 130 people listed as Ebola contacts had been traced and quarantined and that two were still being sought, Reuters reported; in a statement on 17 October, Africa CDC called for infection prevention and protective equipment for frontline health workers.
The Ebola curve in the DRC has started to decline over the past two weeks, but only US$962.66 million of US$3.045 billion in pledges has been disbursed, Africa CDC's Jean Kaseya said, Xinhua reported on 14 October 2026.
On 6 October 2026, the first volunteers in Uganda received a University of Oxford vaccine candidate against Bundibugyo Ebola, in a trial testing its safety and immune response, the MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit and Africa CDC said.
On 6 October 2026, Africa CDC said a high-level team is flying to Kenya after the country confirmed its first Ebola case and that Director General Jean Kaseya will follow. It said more than 70% of new cases in the DRC are being detected among people not previously identified as contacts.
On 6 October 2026, Health CS Aden Duale confirmed Kenya's first Ebola Bundibugyo case. The patient flew from Entebbe to Nairobi on 3 October and died on 5 October, and 28 contacts are listed.
