The Ebola outbreak spreading across the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda has a confirmed case-fatality rate of approximately 26 percent as of late June 2026 — meaning roughly one in four confirmed patients have died. With more than 1,100 total cases, this is now the third-largest Ebola outbreak ever documented globally, behind only the catastrophic 2014–2016 West Africa epidemic and the 2018–2020 DRC outbreak.
Understanding how this death rate compares to past Ebola outbreaks provides important context for assessing the outbreak's severity — both for the people directly affected in DRC and Uganda, and for American readers calibrating their level of concern as the CDC maintains active airport screening and a Level One emergency response.
