The rapid spread of illness in the African country may be due to contaminated water, rather than a virus that jumped from bat ...

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

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

Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster ...

Ebola is a viral haemorrhagic fever that was first discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The virus' natural reservoir animal is suspected to be a species of fruit bat, which does ...

The investigators sent 18 samples to Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, for testing, ruling out Ebola and Marburg viruses. Last year, an unknown flulike illness infected hundreds of people in the ...

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

The WHO Africa office said the quick progression from sickness to death in Boloko is a key concern, along with the high number of deaths in Bomate. Congo’s Ministry of Health said about 80 per cent of ...

Health officials in Congo suspect a mysterious disease that killed 52 people and sickened 943 in Equateur province to be either malaria or food poison ...

a professor of public health at Congo's National Pedagogical University, who previously worked at the Congolese health ministry on Ebola and coronavirus response programs.