The World Health Organization says the Bundibugyo outbreak is on track to become the deadliest in history. The Caribbean’s defences are real — but they are built to detect, not to treat.

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica | Calvin G Brown| August 12, 2026 - From a podium in Geneva on Wednesday, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivered the sentence that should concentrate minds from Kingston to Georgetown: the Ebola outbreak tearing through eastern Congo is, at its current pace, on track to eclipse the West African epidemic of 2014 to 2016 — the deadliest in history, which killed more than 11,000 people.