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

Testing has confirmed that an initially unidentified illness that killed more than 50 people in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo was malaria, the country's National Public Health Institute (INSP ...

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

As of February 16, there were 431 cases and 53 deaths in two outbreaks in remote villages in different health zones in ...

Gutting USAID is already having a devastating impact around the world. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, teams that would normally be racing to identify a fatal sickness are gone.

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA | Xinhua | The death toll from Africa’s ongoing mpox outbreak has reached 1,724 since the beginning of ...

MITI MURHESA, Congo (AP) — Hospitals across eastern Congo that were once at the forefront of the country’s response to the ...

March 5 (UPI) --Federal health officials are monitoring the outbreak of a deadly and mysterious disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed that a mysterious illness that killed more than 50 people ...

When I first spoke to Yap Boum II in January, 2025, he had recently become Deputy Incident Manager for the continental ...

A separate outbreak of disease in December ... refiled to clarify that INSP professor Christian Ngandu coordinates Congo's public health emergency operations centre, in paragraph 4) French ...

Lab testing on samples has now confirmed that it was malaria, INSP professor Christian Ngandu, who also coordinates Congo's public ... A separate outbreak of disease in December, initially of ...