The Mpox virus severely impacts Central and East Africa, with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at the epicenter. Over ...

A previously unknown disease that has claimed the lives of dozens in the Democratic Republic of Congo is likely to be malaria ...

The world faced many public health challenges this year, including dangerous heat waves and outbreaks of the infectious diseases dengue and mpox. In the United States, after years of increases, there ...

With mpox re-emerging as a global health threat, particularly in resource-constrained African countries and with severe ...

Addressing senior officials of the Congolese government on December 13, Health minister Dr Roger Kamba outlined the ...

During last week alone, the continent reported 3,545 new cases, including 467 confirmed ones, and 37 new deaths, according to ...

The global eradication of smallpox more than 40 years ago was one of the greatest achievements in public health history, vanquishing a cause of death, blindness and disfigurement that had plagued ...

TAMESNA, Morocco (AP) — After African countries struggled to get testing kits during the COVID-19 pandemic, officials vowed ...

As the tallest mammal in the world, you may think that all giraffes are the same, but in fact, there are four fascinating types of species across Africa. The Southern giraffe, also known as the ...

(NEXSTAR) – Flu activity spiked in states across the U.S. during the last week of November, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Data from FluView ...

More than 62,000 cases of mpox have been reported in Africa this year, three-quarters of them in Congo. An estimated 1,200 people have died of mpox, which kills about 2.5 percent of those it ...

ADDIS ABABA, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa has reached 1,200, with the number of cases reported so far this year surpassing 62,000, according to the Africa ...