Ebola reaches the Central African border as Kenya confirms a new case

ECDC's table dated 15 October shows 9,277 confirmed cases, 4,478 deaths and 2,486 recoveries in DR Congo in the outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus. On 14 October alone, 65 new cases and 37 deaths were added. The epicentre, Ituri, has 6,806 cases, with 28 of the province's 36 health zones affected; North Kivu is second with 1,991 cases. On 15 October the press reported 2 confirmed cases in North Ubangi, which borders the Central African Republic. ECDC has not yet added these two cases to its own figures.

According to Al Jazeera on 14 October, Kenya's first case was a Kenyan citizen living in DR Congo. The patient crossed into Uganda by road, flew to Nairobi and died 2 days later. The second patient is a 39-year-old family member who was already in quarantine on developing symptoms on 13 October. The DR Congo–Uganda border has been closed since May, and how the first patient crossed remains unexplained. Kenya is screening at the Busia crossing on the Ugandan border and at Jomo Kenyatta airport in Nairobi. Alan Kasujja, head of Uganda's government media centre, denied responsibility. Sources diverge on when Uganda's 20-case outbreak ended: the World Bank says 28 July, ECDC says 25 August.

On 13 October the World Bank raised its total commitment to the outbreak to 426.6 million dollars. Of this, 80 million dollars goes to DR Congo's national response and 13 million dollars to 11 neighbouring countries through Africa CDC. The Bank said detection time, 10 days at the start of the outbreak, had fallen to 1–2 days in September. On 16 October the WHO said it was stepping up readiness in 22 countries and territories in its Eastern Mediterranean region, prioritising Djibouti, Somalia and Sudan; the region has no cases yet.