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

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 ...

Health officials do not know the cause of the outbreaks, or whether the cases in the two remote villages are related ...

Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the ...

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.

Over 1,000 people are sick from the mystery disease, health officials said. At least 60 people have died and over 1,000 more are sick from a deadly "unknown disease" spreading in a region of the ...

More than 50 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. Initial analysis suggests neither Ebola nor Marburg is the cause.

The National Public Health Institute of the Democratic Republic of Congo has identified malaria as the cause behind a mysterious illness that claimed over 50 lives in northwestern Congo. After ...

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

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) The dollar ...