The World Health Organisation (WHO) has deployed its AI-powered Preparedness Data Exchange (PDX) platform in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to combat the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak, as Bundibugyo Ebola cases surpass 10,000. More than 80 per cent of new cases are coming from the community rather than contact lists, Dr Jean Kaseya, Director General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), told a virtual meeting of African health ministers on October 28, 2026. Kaseya said the outbreak is expected to generate about 793,000 contacts, three times the 262,000 listed during the 2018-2020 epidemic in North Kivu, with only about 127,000, roughly 16 per cent, identified. DRC declared the outbreak on May 15, and by November 1 it had recorded 10,532 confirmed cases and 5,126 confirmed deaths, according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Cases have also been confirmed in Uganda, Kenya, and Nigeria, and there is no licensed vaccine for Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD). WHO announced on October 19 that PDX was in use in DRC, the first country where it has been deployed; the platform weighs health threats against a country's capacity to respond and connects DRC to the regional system launched in Nairobi on March 3, 2026, serving all