The World Health Organization (WHO) actively responds to anthrax epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ...

An initially "unknown" illness affecting hundreds in the Democratic Republic of the Congo may be attributable to malaria, ...

More than 21,000 of the roughly 25,000 suspected mpox cases in Africa are in Congo, according to the most recent update from the World Health Organization (WHO). Outbreaks there also account for ...

A mysterious disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo has infected more than 400 people and killed more than 30, mostly children, according to the World Health Organization.. The WHO was ...

More than 50 people have died in recent weeks in two clusters of illness cases with the unknown cause being investigated in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization ...

The World Health Organization is sending a team into a rural southwest province of the DRC to investigate a recent outbreak of disease that has killed at least 143 people and sickened nearly 400.

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed a peace deal facilitated by the U.S. to help end the decades-long ...

More than 300 World Health Organization (WHO) disease surveillance and outbreak response experts supporting the polio eradication efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been integrated ...

The World Health Organization has recorded more than 400 cases of a mysterious, deadly, flu-like illness dubbed “Disease X” in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is struggling to uncover ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that children, pregnant women and people with weak immune systems are at higher risk from the mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In August 2024, the World Health Organization declared a second "Public Health Emergency of International Concern" for mpox.

(Reuters) -An anthrax outbreak has been reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo with one death, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.