DR Congo reported a fresh Ebola outbreak in its northwest on Monday, the latest health emergency for a country already fighting an epidemic of the deadly fever in the east as well as a surging ...
An Ebola epidemic raging in eastern DR Congo marks its first year on Thursday in a mood of fear mingled with hope that fresh money and a change of leadership will turn the tide. So far, 1,790 ...
Health workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been battling an Ebola outbreak for over a year. More than 2,100 people have died, and the World Health Organization has declared it a ...
Epidemiology researchers are harnessing tools developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, ...
Part of a team flown in to fight the deadly virus in 1976, Dr. Breman also worked to stamp out tropical diseases like ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has voiced its concern over the reappearance and subsequent spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a territory formerly known as Zaire. The ...
An Ebola epidemic in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo marked its first anniversary on Thursday with two more cases in the densely-populated frontier city of Goma and accusations by ...
In a concerted response to the growing threat of the Monkey Pox virus, also known as simian pox, Africa is mobilizing to ...
The majority of infectious disease experts from around the world have ranked influenza as the top pathogen of concern in ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the risk of Ebola spreading from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Sierra Leone has officially been declared free of ...
Flu is the most likely pathogen to spark the next global pandemic, disease experts have warned. More than half of a worldwide ...
Myfanwy James is an Assistant Professor in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies. Her work examines the politics of humanitarian intervention in contexts of conflict and displacement, ...