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

Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the ...

Federal health officials are monitoring the outbreak of a deadly and mysterious disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed to UPI.

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

The outbreak began in January, with 419 cases recorded so far, and comes after another mystery illness killed 143 in December ...

World Health Organization officials said the outbreak appeared to originate from a village where three children died after reportedly eating a bat carcass.

More than 50 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. Initial analysis suggests neither Ebola nor Marburg is the cause.

The World Health Organization has reported that there is a deadly "unknown disease" spreading in one region within the Democratic Republic of Congo. Local health officials in Congo are partnering ...

Laboratory testing has proven that a recent deadly disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo was caused by malaria ...

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

The crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is getting worse. In January, even before the Rwanda-backed M23 seized ...

Twenty-eight million people face acute hunger in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a record for the country, driven by an escalating conflict between the government and Rwandan-backed rebels in the ...