An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say. The interval between ...

A mysterious disease with flu-like symptoms has killed dozens of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to health officials there. The unidentified illness has killed 79 people and ...

"The mystery has finally been solved," Congo's health ministry declared in a statement on Tuesday. "It's a case of severe malaria in the form of a respiratory illness." The health agency said ...

The outbreaks in two distant villages in Congo's Equateur province began on Jan. 21 and include 419 cases and 53 deaths. Health officials still do not know the cause, or whether the cases in the ...

Johannesburg — For weeks it was dubbed simply "Disease X." But the mysterious flu-like disease that has killed more than 143 ...

has confirmed that a worrying mystery illness is spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The unknown disease has so far sickened hundreds and killed dozens since reports of it ...

An outbreak of a mystery illness dubbed "Disease X" has killed dozens in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), health officials say. Up to 143 people have died from the infectious disease, ...

BRITISH travellers have been warned about a deadly virus after a case was reported in a popular Spanish tourist hotspot. A 70 ...

A 70-year-old man has been hospitalised in Salamanca after contracting Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF).

The Foreign Office-run website Travel Health Pro reported a case of the illness which leads to 'multiple organ failure' has ...