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About & Methodology

Ebola Cases is an independent outbreak intelligence dashboard. We aggregate public data to help journalists, researchers, and the public follow the epidemic — but we are not a health authority.

What this site is

A live dashboard for the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak (2026): case counts, timeline, interactive map, imported-case tracking, and programmatic country pages — all sourced from publicly available reports.

The site checks WHO data separately from the news collection. Configured primary health sources may publish official news; other reports need three independent origins and an explicit review. KPI changes require official cumulative observations, a clear case definition and reviewed evidence. Publication and observation dates remain separate.

What this site is not

  • Not WHO, CDC, ECDC, or any ministry. We do not speak on behalf of public health institutions.
  • Not medical advice. Do not use this site for diagnosis, treatment, or travel health decisions.
  • Not a substitute for official alerts. In an emergency, follow your local health department and WHO guidance.
  • Not real-time clinical surveillance. Figures lag official reporting and may be revised retroactively.

News monitoring and review

The news feed publishes relevant updates from configured primary health authorities and reports explicitly reviewed against at least three independent reporting origins. An official-source label identifies the publisher; it does not mean every reported case is confirmed.

Different websites are not automatically independent. Reports syndicated from the same agency, attributed to a common original source, or copied with near-identical text count as one reporting origin. Unknown independence, unresolved contradictions and unreviewed media reports remain private. Review checks that the reports concern the same event or claim.

Each public card separates the publication date from the event date and links to its sources. The last successful scan describes when collection completed; the feed update time describes the stored public feed. Scans may fail or be delayed, so these timestamps do not promise real-time coverage. A withdrawal stays visible with a correction label and no longer presents its previous summary as a current fact.

News and KPI totals follow separate rules. Media counts are never added to the dashboard totals. A configured official article may support a KPI update only after an administrator validates its country, cumulative confirmed definition, metric, date and literal supporting excerpt. Suspected and probable cases are kept separate from confirmed cases. A newer WHO country value supersedes an older reviewed update; the KPI source information records any active official update.

How we collect data

Tier 1 — Official sources Authoritative

Primary lane for all endemic statistics and confirmed imported cases.

Tier 2 — International media Early signal

RSS feeds from major news organisations enter a private review queue. Publication requires three independent reporting origins, agreement on the claim and an administrator’s review.

  • BBC World & BBC Health
  • The Guardian, Al Jazeera, France 24, DW, NYT Health

Published media updates are labelled Reviewed corroboration. Syndicated copies count as one origin. News publication does not change the dashboard totals.

Imported case logic

We monitor text for Ebola context combined with country names and import-related language (e.g. returning traveller, first case on national territory, medical evacuation). Endemic countries (DRC, Uganda) are excluded from the imported-case registry.

Only official health sources can support a numerical update. Each reviewed update retains its observation date, source publication date and case definition. Newer WHO figures supersede older reviewed observations; corrections and withdrawals remain auditable.

How totals are counted

The latest WHO report is selected by publication date. The dashboard, chart and report pages use the same cumulative snapshots. New cases, suspected cases and deaths among suspected cases are excluded from confirmed totals.

Global totals combine DRC, Uganda and confirmed diagnoses outside those countries, including explicitly reported locally linked cases. Medical evacuations already counted in DRC are displayed separately and are not added again to confirmed totals. Published global totals form the baseline when WHO provides them; additional verified ministry diagnoses are identified separately in the timeline. Otherwise, the latest known country figures are combined; country report dates are shown where available. Deaths and recoveries may include earlier country reports. CFR refers to DRC.

Historical source reports can contain internal discrepancies, such as a worldwide total that differs from the country breakdown. The published global figure is preserved in that report snapshot rather than silently rewritten.

The contacts figure uses the count reported in the latest WHO report (for example, contacts reached during the reporting period). It is not a cumulative count of everyone ever traced. Missing values appear as a dash. Verified ministry diagnoses can add dated points between WHO reports. Media alerts remain separate from confirmed totals until officially verified.

Last sync is the successful fetch time, while the WHO report date identifies the age of the source. Cached or offline status means the latest refresh could not provide current data.

Limitations & liability

  • Data may be incomplete, delayed, or corrected after publication by source agencies.
  • Map markers use reported country totals at representative locations. They do not show precise infection locations or current active cases.
  • Automated parsing can miss or misclassify edge cases; we prioritise false negatives over false alarms.
  • ebola-cases.com is provided as is without warranty. Use at your own discretion.

Corrections

If you believe a figure or imported-case entry is wrong, please check the linked primary source first. For persistent errors, contact us with the official reference URL so we can review our parsing rules.

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