On Saturday, renowned geneticist and former longtime NIH director Francis Collins announced that he has retired, leaving an ...

A mystery illness has caused dozens of deaths​ in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A "poisoning of a water source" may be a cause, the WHO says.

More than 500 mpox patients have fled clinics in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the last month amid the current ...

The outbreak began in January, with 419 cases recorded so far, and comes after another mystery illness killed 143 in December ...

At least 50 people have died from a mystery illness discovered in three children who ate a dead bat, in the Democratic ...

The case counts seem to be dropping. But health officials say that's because violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) raised serious alarms Thursday about the escalating ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is no stranger to civil conflicts. But the latest advances made by M23, a rebel coalition, capturing the mineral-rich city of Goma, is a humiliating setback ...

An unknown illness has killed 53 people in a northwestern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with a significant portion of deaths taking place within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms ...

In a February 16 bulletin, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that “two clusters of cases and deaths from an unknown ...