Malaria and common respiratory infections, compounded by malnutrition, caused an hitherto unexplained spate of deaths in the southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization ...

New report by WHO states that mystery disease affecting Kwango Province in the Congo probably caused by respiratory viruses ...

A mysterious illness outbreak in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo has now been identified as an acute ...

A combination of viral respiratory infections, malaria and malnutrition has killed nearly 50 people in the African country.

The rainy season worsened already dire conditions in overcrowded camps both inside Sudan and in Chad and South Sudan, where widespread flooding contributed to outbreaks of cholera and malaria ...

In 1976, Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe, a microbiologist and field epidemiologist, received an urgent call to investigate a strange disease in Yambuku, a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Many ...

The U.S. DFC marks its fifth anniversary while navigating growth, reform, and global competition. Plus, some good news ...

Do you sometimes feel like a hamster on its wheel, or perhaps stuck on a runaway train hurtling towards the abyss? Whatever ...

DOZENS of lives have been lost while more than 500 cases were recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as an unknown, but suspected influenza continues to wreak havoc, health experts have ...

A deadly, unidentified disease spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), may be linked to influenza, according ...