Spillover event’ in which an animal infected humans is likely to be the cause of 47 confirmed cases and 25 deaths.

[YAOUNDÉ, SciDev.Net] Health authorities battling to contain an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are urging neighbouring countries to be vigilant and strengthen response ...

High in the misty slopes of Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, a population of mountain gorillas has been clinging to survival for decades in the face of uncountable threats.

After months of aid cuts, the State Department has released a 35-page document detailing how it plans to roll out global ...

The World Health Organization announced deaths from an ongoing outbreak have surged 63 percent over the last week as health ...

The eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region bordering Rwanda with abundant natural resources has suffered extreme violence for more than three decades.

Sabin Nsanzimana, M.D., Ph.D., the country’s top health official, credits supportive care and access to investigational treatments, including remdesivir, with keeping the case fatality rate low in an ...

Not only did he tend to the sick at UCL hospital in London from the start of the pandemic, but his twin brother X suffered serious heart problems after catching the virus. Rather admirably, he ...

Nigeria has numerous endemic diseases, with prominent ones including malaria, Lassa fever, yellow fever, cholera, ...

Another pandemic could be looming due to an ongoing Ebola crisis. Experts have confirmed deaths have surged by a horrifying 63 percent over the last week alone. Officials fear a pandemic is on its way ...

KINSHASA | Xinhua | The number of new cases in the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has ...