Screening and monitoring of travellers returning from countries affected by Bundibugyo virus: an overview of European approaches, July 2026

The 2026 Ebola outbreak caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda has prompted European countries and the United States to revise measures for travellers, healthcare workers and humanitarian personnel returning from affected areas. We compare current procedures and protocols with those implemented during the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak. Despite some national differences, policies have largely converged towards risk-based management, early case detection, rapid isolation, exposure-based monitoring and healthcare preparedness, rather than routine border screening.

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Eurosurveillance
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2026-07-16
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https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.es.2026.31.28.2600578
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Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
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Abstract

The 2026 Ebola outbreak caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda has prompted European countries and the United States to revise measures for travellers, healthcare workers and humanitarian personnel returning from affected areas. We compare current procedures and protocols with those implemented during the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak. Despite some national differences, policies have largely converged towards risk-based management, early case detection, rapid isolation, exposure-based monitoring and healthcare preparedness, rather than routine border screening.

EurosurveillanceVol. 31(28)
Goethe University Frankfurt (DE), Oslo University Hospital (NO), Ministry of Public Health (CD), Radboud University Nijmegen (NL), University of Antwerp (BE), Inserm (FR), Délégation Paris 7 (FR), Université Paris Cité (FR), Robert Koch Institute (DE), Radboud University Medical Center (NL), University of Oxford (GB), Istituto Nazionale per le Malattie Infettive Lazzaro Spallanzani (IT), Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (FR), European Heart Network (BE), Antwerp University Hospital (BE), Hospital La Paz Institute for Health Research (ES), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (NL), NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (GB), County Administrative Board (SE), University Hospital Frankfurt (DE), European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (CH), Infection, Anti-microbiens, Modélisation, Evolution (FR), Imperial College London (GB), University of Nebraska Medical Center (US)
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