Experts deployed to the capital are on hand to assist with testing, infection control and awareness, in anticipation of imported cases

Maeve Cullinan

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Maeve Cullinan is a reporter for The Telegraph’s Global Health Security desk. She covers issues including disease outbreaks, conflict, global development, humanitarian crises, and sexual violence and has reported from Africa and Asia. She was named on the Press 30 under 30 list in 2025.

Published 25 September 2026 3:08pm BST

British Ebola specialists have been deployed to South Sudan because of fears the haemorrhagic fever will spread from neighbouring Congo.

A rare form of Ebola, known as the Bundibugyo species, is spreading rapidly in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where more than 7,800 people have caught the virus since May, 3,700 of whom have died.

To prepare for the threat of imported cases, Britain has positioned three experts in and around the South Sudanese capital, Juba.…