Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with support from World Health Organization (WHO), are intensifying emergency response efforts to control an outbreak of anthrax in which 16 ...

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with technical support from the World Health ...

At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in eastern Congo's Virunga National Park and ...

At least three people have died and several others are hospitalised in an anthrax outbreak in Uganda’s north-eastern and western regions , the country’s health ministry said on Friday.

KAMPALA, April 11 (Xinhua) -- Uganda's Ministry of Health said Friday that an anthrax outbreak in the northeastern and western regions of the country has left three people dead and several others ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo — Anthrax poisoning has killed about ... which separates the DRC from Uganda, park director Emmanuel de Merode said. The local office of the Congolese ...

which forms Congo’s border with Uganda and runs through an area under the control of rebel fighters. Anthrax is a serious disease usually caused by bacteria found naturally in soil. Wild animals ...

The hippopotamuses were found floating in a river south of Lake Edward, which separates the DRC from Uganda, park director ... about 50 of the animals died of anthrax poisoning, in an undated ...

And in 2004, anthrax was responsible for killing around 300 hippos in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park. These latest deaths are an especially heavy toll for the local hippo population.

Anthrax poisoning has killed about 50 hippos ... which separates the DRC from Uganda, park director Emmanuel de Merode said. The local office of the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation ...