The mother and her children are among the more than 1,600 people who have died as a result of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to estimates from the World ...

This is the latest viral epidemic to hit the East African region in the past year, following outbreaks ... Ebola, Lassa fever ...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the WHO, stated during a briefing that the DRC government would not be able to “declare an end to the outbreak on Monday as was hoped,” but that ...

Health officials in Democratic Republic of Congo are planning to launch a clinical trial of four Ebola treatments ... The study will likely run over the course of several outbreaks in multiple ...

Ebola first emerged in 1976 in outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and South Sudan (then Sudan), and tracked to bush-meat. Results from virus sequencing of samples from 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 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 ...

A WWF billboard listing protected species stands in front of a bushmeat market in Mbandaka, DRC. [Reuters] A new ... important in curbing recent Ebola outbreaks. Health authorities vaccinated ...

Th e death toll from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has risen to 564 since the start of an outbreak in late July last year, the country’s Health Ministry said on Monday.