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

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

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 ...

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) Facebook ...

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

The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Uganda Virus Research Institute, has launched a research project to evaluate the recent outbreak of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, which has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

“The outbreaks, which have seen cases rise rapidly ... were sent to the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, for testing. These samples tested negative ...

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 ...