NEW YORK (AP) — Chicago White Sox center fielder Everson Pereira was placed on the seven-day injured list with a concussion Thursday, one day after crashing into the left-center field fence at Yankee Stadium.
Pereira tracked down Ben Rice’s fly ball and crashed into the fence near the 399-foot sign in front of the visiting bullpen, making a leaping catch before his face hit the fence in the seventh inning of Wednesday’s 10-5 loss to the Yankees.
After making the play, Pereira was down for a few minutes before leaving the field. He was placed in concussion protocol.
“Better today but obviously banged up from last night, but he’s in good spirits and doing OK,” White Sox manager Will Venable said before Thursday’s game against the Yankees.
Pereira missed six weeks with a pectoral strain before returning earlier this month, and the 25-year-old is hitting .232 with three homers and seven RBIs in 21 games.
The White Sox recalled Junior Perez from Triple-A Charlotte and started him in left field. Acquired from the Athletics on May 16, Perez was hitting .230 with two homers and seven RBIs in 20 games for Charlotte.
Perez also became the 13th player to debut for the White Sox, matching the MLB record set by the 1944 Cincinnati Reds for the most debuts before the All-Star break.
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Chicago White Sox's Everson Pereira is helped off the field after running into the wall to catch a ball hit by New York Yankees' Ben Rice for an out during the seventh inning of a baseball game Wednesday, June 17, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Chicago White Sox's Everson Pereira (28) runs into the wall to catch a ball hit by New York Yankees' Ben Rice for an out during the seventh inning of a baseball game Wednesday, June 17, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda has claimed more than 200 lives in its first month and is the worst known outbreak at this stage, with up to 35,000 suspected potential contacts, Africa’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
With 894 confirmed cases so far, the current outbreak is three times worse than a previous outbreak in Uganda in 2000, which had 281 cases at the same point, said Dr. Wessam Mankoula, a medical epidemiologist at Africa CDC.
The latest number of cases is believed to be higher because the outbreak was confirmed on May 15, weeks after it was suspected to have begun. The number of cases has increased 38% since last week and is now in 32 health zones across eastern Congo, said Mankoula.
The outbreak is caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus, which has no approved vaccines or treatments and was not tested for in the early days. The more common Zaire virus, for which there is a vaccine, was responsible for most of Congo’s past 16 outbreaks of the disease.
So far 74 patients have recovered from the disease across eastern Congo and Uganda. Experimental treatments like monoclonal antibodies are being developed for Bundibugyo.
The outbreak is concentrated in Congo’s eastern province of Ituri, which accounts for more than 90% of the cases. Cases have also been recorded in the North Kivu and South Kivu provinces and have spread across the border to Uganda, where 19 confirmed cases have been reported and two people have died.
Contact tracing remains an issue due to the area's remoteness and ongoing insecurity in Ituri province, Dr. Mankoula said.
“For those 800 confirmed cases, we should have between 17,000 to 35,000 contacts that should be in our contact list,” said Mankoula. Currently only around 4,000 contacts have been tracked and are being evaluated, less than 15%.
“We are still far from controlling the situation of this outbreak,” said Mankoula.
Nearly a million people have been displaced by years of conflict in Ituri, according to the U.N. humanitarian office, making contact tracing difficult as people flee attacks or move frequently in the vast province with dense forests, poor roads and remote villages that can take days to reach.
Tracing is also difficult among the thousands of miners who regularly move among remote sites in the mineral-rich region.
Of the over $900 million pledged to fight the outbreak, only $90 million has been released to help fight the outbreak, further complicating the ongoing crisis, according to Mankoula.
Africa CDC estimates it needs 540 personnel to fight the outbreak and so far they only have 84.
“We’re keeping our fingers crossed those new pledges will be fast tracked, and we’ll be following up with different member states and different partners about their commitment to turn those pledges into actual money released to their affected countries or partners,” said Mankoula.
Health workers attend to an Ebola patient at the Rwampara treatment Center in Ituri, Congo, Thursday, June 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Health workers attend to an Ebola patient at the Rwampara treatment Center in Ituri, Congo, Thursday, June 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Relatives of Angèle Muyumba Nsimire, a university student who died of Ebola, react at the Citadelle Clinic as health workers prepare her body for burial in Bunia, Congo, Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Health workers tend to an Ebola patient at the Rwampara Treatment Center in Ituri, Congo, Thursday, June 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
