Testing has confirmed that an initially unidentified illness that killed more than 50 people in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo was malaria, the country's National Public Health Institute (INSP ...

The rapid spread of illness in the African country may be due to contaminated water, rather than a virus that jumped from bat ...

Health officials do not know the cause of the outbreaks, or whether the cases in the two remote villages are related ...

The World Health Organization is investigating "another cluster of illness" in northern Congo, as a deadly mystery disease spreads in the region.

The outbreaks in two distant villages in Congo’s Equateur province began on Jan. 21 and include 419 cases and 53 deaths. Health officials still do not know the cause, or whether the cases in the ...

As of February 16, there were 431 cases and 53 deaths in two outbreaks in remote villages in different health zones in ...

MITI MURHESA, Congo (AP) — Hospitals across eastern Congo that were once at the forefront of the country’s response to the mpox outbreak are facing a setback in detecting the disease and offering ...

WHO officials have identified two outbreaks of a mystery illness in the area that has sickened hundreds and killed over 50 people to date.

A separate outbreak of disease in December ... refiled to clarify that INSP professor Christian Ngandu coordinates Congo's public health emergency operations centre, in paragraph 4) The dollar ...

Lab testing on samples has now confirmed that it was malaria, INSP professor Christian Ngandu, who also coordinates Congo's public ... A separate outbreak of disease in December, initially of ...