A rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola is spreading in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, with 7,672 confirmed cases and 3,699 deaths (48.2% fatality) reported since May; in the most recent 24 hours there were 58 new confirmed cases (Ituri 38, North Kivu 14, Haut-Uélé 5, Tshopo 1), 23 deaths, 886 patients in isolation, and 1,879 recovered. Community health workers collect first-line case data by notebook and WhatsApp, but assembling district PowerPoint reports into a national situation report (sitrep) has been slow and labor-intensive, constraining timely patient finding, vaccine targeting, and resource allocation. Partners including CEPI, WHO AFRO, INRB, and Anthropic’s teams implemented Claude-based tools to accelerate and standardize that pipeline.
Claude is being used in three core ways: a Claude “skill” extracts and compares case and lab figures from district slide decks to produce sitreps in under an hour and flag trend changes; a modeling workflow enables running multiple epidemiological forecasts to inform logistics and treatment-site placement; and Claude Science automates bioinformatics tasks - assembling viral genomes, building phylogenies, estimating outbreak scale, and spotting variants - lowering the expertise barrier in sequencing labs. CEPI used Claude to organize vaccine-development proposals and dashboards. WHO AFRO is also using Claude to clean line lists and plans to integrate historical disease databases, and nonprofit teams can access Claude Science credits and Claude for Nonprofits for frontline work.
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