Scale of Ebola virus outbreak likely under-estimated – Oxfam Nesrine Aly Mon, 06/15/2026 - 21:00 Off Humanitarian response lags behind a month into the largest Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak on record.  Only one in five health facilities in Ituri, one of the epicenters of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has access to enough clean water, according to new Oxfam field data. The findings raise urgent concerns about the spread of the Bundibugyo Ebola virus —access to clean water remains the first line of defense against transmission— raising fears that the true scale of the outbreak is underestimated. Oxfam’s field data shows that in Mongbwalo, a town of nearly 140,000 people and one of the outbreak's epicenters in Ituri province, only 20 percent of people have access to clean water while just 25 percent have access to functional sanitation and hygiene infrastructure.