On September 4, 2025, the DRC Ministry of Health officially declared the 16th EVD outbreak in DRC. This new outbreak is described as a new spillover (see earlier post) and to date (September 7, 2025), 14 deaths have been noted among 45 suspected cases. Among the 5 EBOV PCR positive samples, 4 genomes have been generated. Four genomes are available on the Pathoplexus.org EBOV database. See this post for details about the sample handling and sequencing. The consensus genomes were generating usi...
