Africa CDC and WHO have updated their Joint Continental Response Plan for the mpox emergency as the disease continues to affect new areas. The revised strategy focuses on controlling outbreaks, while ...

Mpox can be lethal, especially for children under five years old. The mortality rate for clade I is between 3% and 10%. The ...

Severe flooding triggered by torrential rains in recent weeks has displaced almost 10,000 people in Tanganyika Province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This unfolding emergency reflects ...

Foreign aid cuts could result in a major outbreak of mpox across the African continent and beyond, with virus control measures already disrupted, public health experts warn.

There are cuts to pandemic preparedness, even though we are barely emerging from the Covid pandemic, and it was less than 10 ...

The retrospective observational study reported by Emile Malembi and colleagues in The Lancet1 provides a comprehensive clinical description of mpox cases caused by ongoing outbreaks in the DR Congo, ...

More than 50 deceased hippos are floating down a major river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The cause of death: naturally occurring anthrax. German biologist Fabian Leendertz speaks with The ...

Anthrax poisoning has killed about 50 hippos in Virunga, Africa's oldest national park located in the Democratic Republic of ...

In Virunga National Park, located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, anthrax has claimed the lives of at least 50 ...

At least 50 hippos and other large animals at Virunga National Park in the DRC are thought to be killed by the bacterial ...

The three commanders lead Rwanda's special forces and two divisions accused of deploying troops in eastern DR Congo to support ... force shortly after the outbreak of the violence.

Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - Ongoing violence in North and South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to kill, injure and displace civilians, the UN Office for the Coordination of ...