This year's Ebola outbreak in Africa is by far the worst the continent has seen since 1976, when the virus was first discovered. The first outbreak in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

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 ...

A second person has died in Democratic Republic of Congo’s 12th recorded outbreak of Ebola, the World Health Organization and the country’s health ministry announced today (February 11). The ...

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 ...

Violence by militia groups has made treating the worst Ebola outbreak in the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo even harder. Anne Soy joined teams in the east of the country to see their ...

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 ...

"Patrick Muanda Congo delivered a message from the UDSP leadership containing a request for Russia’s assistance in fighting an outbreak of the Ebola virus disease in eastern areas of the DRC ...

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 ...

"The issue [of the vaccine’s deliveries to the DRC] is under consideration. Currently, the Ebola fever outbreak is raging across the DR Congo. At the moment, it is the only country which needs ...