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 ...

However, Ebola ... Congo’s government said experts have been sent to the villages since Feb. 14, mainly to help investigate the cases and slow the spread. But in the latest outbreaks, several ...

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.

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

World Health Organization officials said the outbreak appeared to originate from a village where three children died after reportedly eating a bat carcass.

Health experts say an unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks.

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

The Democratic Republic of Congo has experienced numerous disease outbreaks in recent decades. The country reported its first Ebola outbreak in 1976 and has since managed multiple recurrences of ...

Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster emerging from a 4-year-old child who recently died of the infectious disease.

"The reality is there have been multiple Ebola outbreaks across Africa in recent months, and now this mystery illness in Congo is super dangerous. We just don't know enough," she said, adding a ...