Resources with keywords: clinical laboratory biosafety
Ebola Disease Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda
CDC / Health Alert Network (HAN)
19 May 2026
CDC HAN advisory directed at U.S. clinicians, laboratorians, and public health practitioners. CDC issued Level 3 Travel Health Notice for DRC; Level 1 for Uganda. Clinical laboratories instructed to use standard contact and droplet precautions during specimen collection, and to notify public health before processing specimens from febrile patients with relevant travel history. No U.S. cases as of 25 May 2026. One American HCW medically evacuated from DRC to Germany for isolation.
