A mystery illness has caused 60 deaths​ in the Democratic Republic of Congo. One of the outbreaks was preliminarily linked to children who had eaten a bat carcass.

Medics have so far been unable to identify the illness from samples taken from among over 400 people infected. All samples tested so far have have been negative for Ebola or other common hemorrhagic ...

The World Health Organization is investigating "another cluster of illness" in northern Congo, as a deadly mystery disease ...

Unidentified illnesses in northwestern Congo have killed more than 50 people over the past five weeks, nearly half of them within hours after they felt sick ...

Officials have ruled out Ebola or Marburg virus, but say those infected are presenting symptoms of a ‘hemorrhagic fever’ ...

Gutting USAID is already having a devastating impact around the world. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, teams that ...

More than 50 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. Initial ...

The CDC is closely monitoring an "unknown disease” that has killed dozens in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the agency ...

The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents ...

A mysterious and deadly illness is spreading rapidly in Congo claiming lives within hours With no known cause experts race to contain the outbreak before it escalates ...

Ebola was discovered in 1976 in simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and Congo, where it occurred in a village near the Ebola River, after which the disease is named.