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Government data reported November 10 put DRC at 11,042 confirmed Bundibugyo Ebola cases and 5,387 deaths; a cumulative milestone cannot determine whether transmission is slowing.
The CDC counted 5,182 confirmed US measles cases through November 5, more than twice the 2025 total and the highest annual tally since 1991. A Pan American Health Organization review this week will examine whether the United States still meets the criteria for measles elimination.
The World Health Organization says the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo had reached 10,668 confirmed cases and 5,198 deaths by 3 November. As transmission continued across 51 health zones, experts recommended two Bundibugyo-specific vaccine candidates for evaluation in the Tumaini trial, subject to national approval.
Two children in Deir-ez-Zor have developed paralysis from VDPV1. Vaccination has begun, but surveillance and the extent of transmission remain under investigation.
Hillsborough County has extended its dengue-related local emergency through November 12 as mosquito surveillance remains positive across many neighborhoods and state records show 407 locally acquired cases.
WHO's November 6 bulletin records 67 confirmed yellow fever cases and 18 deaths across nine African countries through October 12. Border-area exposure and population movement raise concern, but links between the reported events have not been established.
Five people recovered and 46 contacts completed monitoring, Kenya said on November 3. Two patients were still being treated, and the country had not begun the final 42-day observation period.
Thailand's Department of Disease Control reported 470 cumulative mpox cases and three deaths through October 31, 2026. The figures show a continuing surveillance burden, but the latest release leaves important questions about clades, geography and case outcomes unanswered.
Two patients in Adamawa tested negative after two laboratory rounds. Nigeria's earlier imported confirmed Ebola case remains part of its official historical count, even though the patient was evacuated to Switzerland.
The DRC's Bundibugyo outbreak has crossed 5,000 reported deaths in the latest government figures. Community transmission, conflict, delayed care and gaps in contact tracing complicate containment.