Standard Media, citing Kenya's Principal Secretary for Public Health, reports 8 media-reported and unverified confirmed Bundibugyo Ebola cases in Kenya and 1 media-reported and unverified death. That is up from 7 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases in the previous media report for Kenya and is the first media-reported and unverified death reported there in the outbreak. Kenya is linked to the wider Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak centred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with cross-border concern through Uganda.
Manager.bg, citing Kenya's health ministry, reports 3 media-reported and unverified Ebola cases, 1 media-reported and unverified death and 108 media-reported and unverified contacts under observation in Kenya. Those figures conflict with earlier media reports of 8 media-reported and unverified Kenyan cases and 1 media-reported and unverified death. The same report puts the broader regional filovirus outbreak at 9000 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases and 4300 media-reported and unverified deaths, below earlier media reports of 9400 cases and 4500 deaths.
Media reports, unverified, continue to conflict over Kenya's Ebola outbreak. Rwanda News Agency, citing Kenya's Ministry of Health, reports 8 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases and 1 media-reported and unverified death, unchanged from earlier media reports. ClickOrlando, citing Kenya authorities, reports 7 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases. The same ClickOrlando report separately lists 9400 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases and 4500 media-reported and unverified deaths in Congo, not Kenya.
GroundUp reports, unverified, citing the National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the Department of Water and Sanitation, that the Bronkhorstspruit acute gastroenteritis outbreak in Tshwane has 408 media-reported and unverified suspected cases, including 72 media-reported and unverified suspected cases reported this week, and no media-reported and unverified deaths. The report says the affected area includes Bronkhorstspruit, Zithobeni, Dark City, Rethabiseng and Sokhulumi. This is the first media-reported and unverified case tally for the outbreak.
South Africa's health and water ministries said Bronkhorstspruit has 408 official suspected cases linked to the water-illness investigation and no official deaths, while no official confirmed cholera cases have been identified. That keeps the suspected illness total in line with the earlier media-reported and unverified tally of 408 and confirms there are still no official cholera cases. A separate South African government news report also said there were no official confirmed cases in Bronkhorstspruit.
WOAH flags 12 new official HPAI events per week worldwide
· surveillance signal · update
WOAH’s WAHIS surveillance page shows 12 official new highly pathogenic avian influenza events submitted per week worldwide against a baseline of 4.5 official new events submitted per week, with the rise marked from 2026-10-20. This is the first figure in this report for the current global uptick in reported HPAI events. The WOAH entry concerns event submissions worldwide rather than a single national outbreak, and it indicates reporting activity above the baseline level on the animal health monitoring platform.
Arab News, citing Kenyan authorities, reports 7 media-reported and unverified confirmed Bundibugyo Ebola cases in Kenya, replacing an earlier social claim of an eighth Kenyan case. The same report, citing Congolese authorities, puts the Democratic Republic of the Congo at 9400 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases and 4500 media-reported and unverified deaths. Those media-reported and unverified figures are below the 9455 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases and 4561 media-reported and unverified deaths previously circulating for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.
A social post says Kenya has an eighth Ebola case linked to the Bundibugyo virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. The same post repeats 9455 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases and 4561 media-reported and unverified deaths in DRC and Uganda, unchanged from the previous media-reported and unverified totals. No official Kenyan statement was provided in the report. Earlier public health reporting had already described cross-border spread from DRC through Uganda into Kenya.
Radio Okapi reports, unverified, citing the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ministry of Public Health, that the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda has reached 9455 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases and 4561 media-reported and unverified deaths, up from 9415 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases and 4536 media-reported and unverified deaths reported earlier. The same report says 925 media-reported and unverified patients are hospitalised and that Wapinda in Nord-Ubangi has 2 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases and 1 media-reported and unverified death, making Nord-Ubangi the eighth affected province in DRC.
Rekord East reports, unverified, that South Africa's Water and Sanitation Minister says Bronkhorstspruit has 408 media-reported and unverified suspected cases of illness, with no media-reported and unverified deaths and no media-reported and unverified confirmed cholera cases. That adds a new suspected cluster after the previous report from Tshwane said tests found no cholera there. The report says residents were warned not to drink tap water while authorities investigate the source of the illnesses.
Media reports, unverified, citing Kenya's Ministry of Health, continue to put Kenya's Ebola outbreak at 8 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases and 1 media-reported and unverified death, unchanged from earlier reports. New media accounts cite 128 media-reported and unverified contacts under observation, while SANA also cites 130 media-reported and unverified contacts under observation. A separate Los Angeles Times report gives a lower 7 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases, which does not match the 8-case tally carried by other outlets.
SABC News reports, unverified, that South Africa’s Water and Sanitation Minister says tests found no cholera in Tshwane patients, meaning the suspected cluster there did not become a confirmed cholera count. That shifts the latest cholera picture away from Tshwane and toward the broader multi-country transmission already being reported elsewhere. Cholera remains an active worldwide outbreak, with recent reporting in this session spread across several regions rather than centered on one location.
Russia's Rospotrebnadzor said on Telegram, citing WHO, that mpox has caused 193000 official confirmed cases worldwide overall and 14000 official confirmed cases worldwide in 2026. That changes the emphasis from the earlier report that highlighted only the over 14000 official confirmed cases recorded in 2026, with the new official post also giving WHO's broader worldwide total. The same post lists country figures including 1000 official confirmed cases in Thailand, 90 official confirmed cases in the United States and 66 official confirmed cases in Portugal. Mpox lineages including clade I and clade II continue to circulate in official monitoring.
TASS reports, citing Russia's sanitary watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, that mpox has caused over 14,000 official confirmed cases worldwide in 2026. That changes the figure from the 193000 official confirmed cases worldwide cited in the previous TASS report from WHO; the new report describes the count as worldwide in 2026 rather than a broader global total. Mpox remains under international monitoring, with clade I and clade II lineages, including clade Ib, still circulating according to official updates.
TASS reports, citing the World Health Organization, that mpox has caused 193000 official confirmed cases worldwide. That is the first official global case total cited here since earlier reports focused on 5 media-reported and unverified hospitalised cases in St. Petersburg and 26 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases in South Africa. TASS says Russia's sanitary watchdog is continuing to monitor the situation as clade I and clade II mpox lineages remain under international surveillance.
Lanueva.com reports, unverified, citing authorities, that the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda has reached 9415 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases and 4536 media-reported and unverified deaths. That is below the earlier media report of 9455 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases and 4561 media-reported and unverified deaths, which was not confirmed in this latest account. The same report says Ubangi recorded +2 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases and +1 media-reported and unverified death, while Ituri recorded +44 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases.
Media reports, unverified, citing Kenya's Ministry of Health, continue to put Kenya at 8 media-reported and unverified confirmed Ebola cases and 1 media-reported and unverified death, unchanged from earlier media reports. Hürriyet Daily News and The Peninsula also cite 128 media-reported and unverified contacts under observation, while AOL cites 108 media-reported and unverified contacts under observation in Nairobi. A separate media report from Xinhua puts Kenya at 7 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases, a lower figure that does not match the 8-case tally carried by other outlets.
TASS reports, citing the S. P. Botkin Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital, that St. Petersburg has 5 media-reported and unverified confirmed mpox cases hospitalised on October 16. The hospital's press service told TASS the patients' condition is stable. This follows media reports a day earlier that put South Africa's national total at 26 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases. Mpox remains under global monitoring, with clade I and clade II lineages still circulating in official international updates.
TASS reports, unverified, citing the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ministry of Public Health, Hygiene and Social Welfare, that the country has 9455 confirmed Bundibugyo Ebola cases, media-reported and unverified, and 4561 deaths, media-reported and unverified. The same report cites WHO as saying Kenya has 8 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified. That shifts the latest picture from the previous media report of 9000 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, and 4300 deaths, media-reported and unverified, across the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, and from 3 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, in Kenya.
The Guardian reports, unverified, citing Kenya's Ministry of Health, Uganda's Ministry of Health and WHO, that Kenya has 3 confirmed Bundibugyo Ebola cases, media-reported and unverified, 1 death, media-reported and unverified, and 108 contacts under observation, media-reported and unverified, while Uganda has 20 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, and 2 deaths, media-reported and unverified. The same media report puts the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda at 9000 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, and 4300 deaths, media-reported and unverified, down from 4561 deaths, media-reported and unverified, in the previous dispatch's latest cross-border total.
Sib.fm reports, unverified, citing Russia's Rospotrebnadzor, that cholera totals 1300000 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, to 4000000 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, and 21000 deaths, media-reported and unverified, to 143000 deaths, media-reported and unverified, worldwide. The figures appear in travel advice rather than a new country outbreak bulletin. They shift the latest cholera item away from Kibua health zone in Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo, where media reports had put 114 suspected cases, media-reported and unverified, and 13 deaths, media-reported and unverified.
MedicalDaily reports, unverified, citing the Florida Department of Health, that Florida has 368 confirmed dengue cases, media-reported and unverified, up by 72 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, in one week. The outlet lists 310 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, in Hillsborough County, 37 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, in Pinellas County, 9 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, in Miami-Dade County, 5 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, in Orange County, 4 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, in Pasco County, and 1 confirmed case, media-reported and unverified, each in Broward, Palm Beach and Polk counties.
Media reports, unverified, citing Kenya's Ministry of Health, continue to put Kenya at 8 confirmed Ebola cases, media-reported and unverified, and 1 death, media-reported and unverified. That is unchanged from the previous dispatch. MedicalDaily adds 8 hospitalised, media-reported and unverified, at Nairobi Hospital and 128 contacts under observation, media-reported and unverified, while Prokerala separately reports 130 contacts under observation, media-reported and unverified. WHO has previously described Kenya's first case as an imported Bundibugyo infection linked to travel from the Democratic Republic of the Congo through Uganda.
AfricaNews, citing Kenya's health director-general, reports Kenya has 8 media-reported and unverified confirmed Ebola cases and 1 media-reported and unverified death. Kenya's case count is unchanged from 8 in earlier media reports; the death is the first media-reported and unverified death reported there in this outbreak. The same report says North Ubangi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has 2 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases and 1 media-reported and unverified death. WHO's latest official update says the main filovirus event remains the Bundibugyo outbreak in DRC.
Radio Okapi, citing North Kivu's governor, reports North Kivu has 1252 media-reported and unverified Bundibugyo Ebola deaths, up from 1231 in earlier media reports. Actualite.cd says Nord-Ubangi has 2 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases, making it the 8th affected province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The same report cites official figures of 4561 media-reported and unverified deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, a total that does not match earlier media reports of 5751 deaths. WHO's latest official update, with data to 6 October, had described spread across seven provinces in DRC.
Media reports, unverified, citing Kenya's Ministry of Health, say Kenya has 8 confirmed Ebola cases, media-reported and unverified. The reported case count is unchanged from 8 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, in earlier Kenya media coverage on Saturday. Capital News says the ministry is warning that Ebola can resemble malaria, a message tied to identifying suspected infections through official health services. For health guidance, see your national health authority.
Actualite.cd reports, citing North Kivu’s provincial government, that North Kivu has 2055 media-reported and unverified confirmed Bundibugyo Ebola cases and 1231 media-reported and unverified deaths, including 3 media-reported and unverified deaths in Beni. Media reports, unverified, now put the outbreak death toll in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda at 5751, down from 6979 in earlier media reporting. The report says North Kivu is holding a day without activities on Monday to reinforce the Ebola response.
Actualite.cd reports 114 media-reported and unverified suspected cholera cases and 13 media-reported and unverified deaths in Kibua health zone in Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo, between March and October. The report adds a new media-reported and unverified local toll to the broader cholera picture, with 47 media-reported and unverified suspected cases and 5 media-reported and unverified deaths recorded earlier, followed by 67 media-reported and unverified suspected cases and 8 media-reported and unverified deaths later in the period. It says Kibua health zone includes cases in Kilungu, Ntoto, Karambi and Kishanga.
AfricaNews reports 5 media-reported and unverified deaths in Bunia in the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Media reports, unverified, now put the outbreak death toll in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda at 6979, up from 6974 in earlier media reporting. The article says stigma and conflict are worsening the mental health burden in affected communities. WHO’s latest public update on 8 October described a large Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak in the DRC.
Media reports, citing Congo's latest situation report and laboratory officials, say the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has spread to North Ubangi, with 2 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, and 1 death, media-reported and unverified, the first figures reported there. The same report puts the DRC-wide toll at 9415 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, up from 9400, and 4536 deaths, media-reported and unverified, up from 4500. Separately, the latest official death toll stands at 4385, up from 4382; earlier media reports of 4500 deaths were not confirmed.
Daily Maverick reports, citing Kenya’s Ministry of Health, that Kenya has 8 media-reported and unverified confirmed Ebola cases in the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak, up from 7 in earlier media reports. The new report adds 1 media-reported and unverified confirmed case for Kenya. WHO’s latest Disease Outbreak News update, published on 8 October with data to 6 October, said transmission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo remained intense but uneven.
Al Jazeera, citing Kenya's Ministry of Health, says Kenya has 8 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, of Bundibugyo Ebola, up from 7 media-reported and unverified in the previous report. The article says that is +4 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, in Kenya, while repeating 9400 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, and 4500 deaths, media-reported and unverified, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It also repeats Uganda's 20 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, and 2 deaths, media-reported and unverified. WHO's latest official update had described a large outbreak centered in the DRC with cross-border spread.
WHO FluNet flags influenza positivity above baseline in the Americas
· surveillance signal · update
WHO’s FluNet surveillance series shows official influenza test positivity in the Americas at 5 % of specimens positive, weekly, against an official baseline of 3.65 % of specimens positive, weekly, with a z 2.0 signal since 2026-10-19. This is the latest official regional surveillance signal in the Americas record and shows positivity above the baseline tracked by FluNet. The measure refers to the share of tested specimens reported positive, not a case total. For local guidance on influenza activity and testing, see your national health authority.
Media reports citing the Democratic Republic of the Congo health ministry say, unverified, that Bundibugyo Ebola has reached Nord-Ubangi, with 2 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases and 1 media-reported and unverified death in Wapinda health zone. A separate media report citing Congolese authorities puts the DRC-Uganda outbreak at 9415 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases and 4536 media-reported and unverified deaths, including +67 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases and +26 media-reported and unverified deaths; Kenya is reported, unverified, to have 7 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases and Uganda 20 media-reported and unverified confirmed cases. That moves beyond the previous dispatch, which only noted a social post linking to claims of spread into another province.
Arab News, citing the Democratic Republic of the Congo health ministry, says Bundibugyo Ebola has reached an eighth province after 2 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, and 1 death, media-reported and unverified, were identified in Wapinda health zone in Nord-Ubangi. The report puts the DRC and Uganda outbreak at 9400 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, and 4500 deaths, media-reported and unverified, differing from earlier media reports of 9,415 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, and 4,536 deaths, media-reported and unverified. It also repeats Kenya’s 7 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified.
Media reports, unverified, citing Kenya's Ministry of Health, say Kenya has 8 confirmed Ebola cases, media-reported and unverified, up from 3 in earlier media reports. The same reports put the death toll at 1, media-reported and unverified, and say 128 contacts are under observation, media-reported and unverified, down from 130 in earlier media reports. WHO's last directly sourced official account for Kenya still describes one laboratory-confirmed imported Bundibugyo virus disease case reported by Kenya on 2026-10-06 after travel from the Democratic Republic of the Congo through Uganda.
Media reports, unverified, citing Kenya's Ministry of Health, say Kenya has 3 confirmed Ebola cases, media-reported and unverified, and 130 contacts under observation, media-reported and unverified, up from 128 contacts under observation in earlier media reports. The 3 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, differ from earlier media reports of 7 confirmed cases, which remain unverified. Kenya's outbreak is tied in WHO's latest official account to a laboratory-confirmed imported Bundibugyo virus disease case linked to travel from the Democratic Republic of the Congo through Uganda.
A social post linking to TeleSUR says Bundibugyo Ebola has reached an eighth province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, citing Congo health ministry information on North Ubangi. The post also points to Congo health ministry and WHO outbreak tallies covering the wider Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda event, and to Kenya's imported cases. WHO's latest official outbreak notice already described a DRC-centered Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak with cross-border implications for Uganda and an imported case in Kenya.
The Guardian, in an editorial, says the hospital where a laboratory worker was treated has 200 contacts under observation, media-reported and unverified, in the Irkutsk Oblast plague scare. That adds a new media-reported and unverified contact-tracing figure to earlier reports of 8 media-reported and unverified suspected plague cases in Butyrki and Koty. Regional authorities had previously said no outbreak had been confirmed, and reports citing Rospotrebnadzor said there were 0 media-reported and unverified confirmed plague cases in the oblast. The episode remains a plague scare rather than a documented plague outbreak.
Media reports, unverified, citing Congo public health authorities, say Bundibugyo Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has reached an eighth province after 2 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, and 1 death, media-reported and unverified, were identified in North Ubangi. SABC says authorities added 67 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, and 26 deaths, media-reported and unverified, bringing the DRC and Uganda outbreak to 9,415 confirmed cases, media-reported and unverified, and 4,536 deaths, media-reported and unverified. The previous dispatch centered on Kenya's 7 confirmed cases, official, and 1 death, official.