Commentary highlights IPC challenges during Ebola outbreak, suggesting an IPC-first response framework for better preparedness.
The 2026 Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in eastern DRC highlighted important early infection prevention and control (IPC) challenges, including healthcare-associated transmission, healthcare worker infections, unsafe triage systems, limited isolation capacity, and shortages of IPC supplies. This commentary argues that pathogen-specific preparedness may remain insufficient in settings characterized by diagnostic uncertainty and proposes an "IPC-first" outbreak response framework based on rapid syndromic IPC activation before definitive laboratory confirmation becomes available.
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