THE discovery of gold in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has triggered a population boom and exposed the region to a renewed cholera scourge. Lomera, the lakeside village in th ...

The 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, which killed more than 11,000 people, was the deadliest the world has ever seen. The United States spent millions to help contain it.

Uganda has officially declared the end of its latest Ebola outbreak, three months after the first cases emerged in the capital, Kampala. The Ministry of Health announced the milestone on Saturday ...

In the 2022 Ebola outbreak the CDC supported the outbreak response with surveillance and laboratory capacity, but in this imagined future, since the CDC remains defunded, weakened surveillance ...

Between 2014 and 2016, Ebola killed 11,000 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the largest outbreak of that infection on record; another large outbreak in the DRC led to nearly 2,300 ...

Federal health officials are monitoring the outbreak of a deadly and mysterious disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed to UPI.

The outbreak in the DRC bears similarities to previous instances of disease spillover from wildlife, including the 2013–2016 West African Ebola epidemic, which was traced back to human contact ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Jeremy Konyndyk, who oversaw USAID's response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, if cuts to the agency leave the U.S. more vulnerable to infectious disease.

A mysterious disease with Ebola-like symptoms has emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to the World Health Organization, the disease was first detected on January 21, and ...

What is the difference between the Ebola virus and Sudan virus? Ebola was discovered near the Ebola River, during two simultaneous outbreaks in 1976 — in Zaire, now DRC, and South Sudan.

Travelers and health-care providers should be on alert due to Ebola disease outbreak in Uganda, CDC warns By Jen Christensen, CNN Feb 6, 2025 0 1 of 2 ...