An unknown illness has killed over 50 people in northwestern Congo. That's according to doctors on the ground and the World Health Organization on Monday.

Judith Suminwa called on countries around the world to take action and impose the toughest possible sanctions amid the atrocities committed by rebels ...

Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), its prime minister told ...

Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the prime minister of the ...

It can spread rapidly in communities with low vaccination rates, and initially results in symptoms including a high fever, a cough, a runny nose, and red or watery eyes, according to the U.S. Centers ...

Public health employees and contractors who lost their jobs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gathered at the ...

When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997. Kabila was installed as president of Zaire and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic ...

As the Trump administration dismantles the US Agency for International Development (USAid) and retreats from funding global public health efforts, mpox – formerly known as monkeypox – is at greater ...

Trump administration’s decision to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and stop funding for global ...

March 2014 – The CDC issues its initial announcement on an outbreak ... 1976 – First recognition of the EBOV disease is in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo). The outbreak has 318 reported ...

California hospitals are struggling to keep up with the influx of flu cases. Meanwhile, it is unclear whether the United States will take part in an international flu vaccine meeting later this month.