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This commentary argues that this absence is not a misfortune of virology but a structurally produced injustice. Bundibugyo virus has been characterised since 2008, has caused lethal outbreaks, and was foreseeably capable of recurrence; more importantly, species\u2010specific and cross\u2010protective countermeasures were scientifically tractable more than a decade before, yet none reached licensure or field readiness. A recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus vaccine expressing the Bundibugyo glycoprotein \u2014 built on the same platform as the licensed Zaire vaccine \u2014 conferred complete protection in nonhuman primates in 2013; thirteen years later, no clinical\u2010grade material existed when the outbreak began. The gap, we argue, lay not in what science could build but in what the system chose to finish, because preparedness investment concentrated on the species that threatened wealthier and more connected populations. Drawing on the framework of structural injustice and on the authors\u2019 prior field experience of concurrent epidemics in the DRC, we distinguish tragic scarcity from produced scarcity, answer the feasibility objection, and argue that closing the gap is an obligation rather than a charity.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/dewb.70058","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,15]],"date-time":"2026-10-15T15:15:32Z","timestamp":1792077332000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The Storm We Chose: Bundibugyo Virus, Preparedness Injustice, and the Pathogens We Decline to Fight"],"prefix":"10.1111","author":[{"given":"Harpreet","family":"Dhillon","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine, Base Hospital Delhi Cantt Indian Army Delhi India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2991-7595","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shibu","family":"Sasidharan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine, Base Hospital Delhi Cantt Indian Army Delhi India"},{"name":"Department of Addiction Psychiatry Military Hospital Jalandhar India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_11_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/dewb.12292"},{"key":"e_1_2_11_3_1","unstructured":"World Health Organization \u201cEbola Disease Caused by Bundibugyo Virus \u2014 Democratic Republic of the Congo \u201d (World Health Organization May2026) https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/disease-outbreak-news\/item\/2026-DON619."},{"issue":"22","key":"e_1_2_11_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"293","DOI":"10.15585\/mmwr.mm7522e3","article-title":"Notes From the Field: Outbreak of Ebola Disease Caused by Bundibugyo Virus \u2014 Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, May 2026","volume":"75","author":"Zomahoun D. 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