Ebola spread in central Africa could match 2014 record outbreak, US health officials say
<p>Modelling from US CDC shows Ebola spread could be on ‘dangerous trajectory’, but experts warn outbreaks can be very hard to predict</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/29/who-chief-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus-drc-ebola-outbreak-epidemic">Central Africa’s Ebola outbreak</a> could spread to be similar in scale to the worst outbreak in history, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/17/what-is-ebola-why-who-says-drc-uganda-outbreak-global-health-emergency">west Africa’s 2014-2016 outbreak</a> that killed more than 11,000 people, according to a new analysis by US health officials.</p><p>The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday published a range of scenarios generated by computer models, from 10,000 cases to more than 20,000. In the west Africa outbreak, more than 28,000 cases were reported.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/06/ebola-spread-in-central-africa-could-match-2014-record-outbreak-us-health-officials-say">Continue reading...</a>