Recognised examples of such diseases include Ebola, Lassa fever and Marburg ... Since the start of the outbreak, DRC had ...

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

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

Ebola treatment center set on fire in Butembo, DRC in February. Despite the security problems, Dr. Keita says he and his team are staying, and are determined to stop the outbreak by the end of the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) have updated their ...

A new CDC-led study identifies deforestation as a leading indicator of Ebola virus spillover ... Predicted risk is highly concentrated in the DRC, particularly in areas of recent forest loss.

four confirmed Ebola cases and two deaths were also reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “It is not easy to say how long we expect an outbreak to last,” said Moeti. “Clearly ...

Kinshasa: Testing has confirmed that an initially unidentified illness that killed more than 50 people in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo was ... A separate outbreak of disease in December ...

Most Ebola outbreaks affect sub-Saharan Africa where ... that was first discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The virus' natural reservoir animal is suspected to be a species ...

The Ebola virus disease outbreak now ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest on record. In fact, West Africa has seen more cases of the disease in 2014 than have been seen in all other ...