Unidentified illnesses in northwestern Congo have killed more than 50 people over the past five weeks, nearly half of them ...

Over 50 deaths have been linked to an "unknown disease" in the Democratic Republic of Congo since January. Nearly half occurred within 48 hours of the symptoms' start.

More than 50 people have died in two clusters of unknown illnesses in northwest Congo, global health authorities said.

The outbreak has been traced, tentatively, to three children who ate a bat, the W.H.O. said, and known threats like Ebola and ...

The interval between the onset of symptoms and death has been 48 hours in the majority of cases. A medical official says that ...

WHO, the World Health Organization, has confirmed the existence of a new outbreak of the Marburg virus, a disease that has ...

Uganda discharged on Tuesday the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola, health authorities reported, and there were no other positive cases in the outbreak declared last month.

Uganda health authorities say they discharged the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola. There were no other positive cases in the outbreak declared last month. The World Health Organization ...

August 8, 2014 – Experts at the World Health Organization (WHO) declare the Ebola epidemic ravaging West Africa an international health emergency that requires a coordinated global approach, ...

Uganda has launched a trial vaccination programme against the Sudan strain of Ebola, the World Health Organization said this month. Existing vaccines are for the Zaire strain of Ebola, which was ...

Kampala, Uganda – A month after an Ebola outbreak struck Uganda in September 2022, Edward Kayiwa began feeling unwell: headaches, fever and muscle pain. He knew something was wrong, and that he ...