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

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.

At least 1,318 people have exhibited symptoms and 53 have died, the WHO said. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely monitoring an unknown disease that has killed dozens in ...

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the DRC. Disease, child slavery and Christian persecution stalk the population.

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely monitoring an unknown disease that has killed dozens in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the agency said in a statement on Tuesday.

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 ...