Reports of a strange new “disease X” in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is “news”; the fact that about 2.2 billion cases ...

Nigeria’s then Minister of Defence, Brig-Gen Mansur Dan-Ali (Rtd), answered the DICON question. The minister said that the ...

Malaria and common respiratory infections, compounded by malnutrition, caused an hitherto unexplained spate of deaths in the ...

An outbreak of a mysterious illness in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been identified as an acute respiratory infection complicated by malaria, health officials disclosed on ...

A mysterious illness outbreak in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo has now been identified as an acute ...

A combination of viral respiratory infections, malaria and malnutrition has killed nearly 50 people in the African country.

Even by the standards of recent years, 2024 was a year of turmoil in which new conflicts erupted, existing crises seethed, and climate-fueled disasters multiplied. As a result, the number of people ...

In 1976, Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe, a microbiologist and field epidemiologist, received an urgent call to investigate a strange disease in Yambuku, a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Many ...

The U.S. DFC marks its fifth anniversary while navigating growth, reform, and global competition. Plus, some good news ...

Do you sometimes feel like a hamster on its wheel, or perhaps stuck on a runaway train hurtling towards the abyss? Whatever ...

DOZENS of lives have been lost while more than 500 cases were recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as an unknown, but suspected influenza continues to wreak havoc, health experts have ...

A deadly, unidentified disease spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), may be linked to influenza, according ...