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 ...

Ebola first emerged in 1976 in outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and South Sudan (then Sudan), and tracked to bush-meat. Results from virus sequencing of samples from the ...

The mother and her children are among the more than 1,600 people who have died as a result of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to estimates from the World ...

Using two decades of satellite data, researchers found that forest loss and fragmentation were among the strongest predictors ...

Kabila was installed as president of Zaire and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic of Congo. In 1998, the Second Congo War broke out following the deterioration of ...

If Ebola virus was in his body ... Since a 1976 outbreak in what then was Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and a simultaneous episode with a closely related virus in what was ...

The health ministry of Uganda has reported an increase in confirmed Ebola cases ... for the Zaire strain, which has caused recent outbreaks in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

Existing vaccines are for the Zaire strain of Ebola, which was behind recent outbreaks in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. Ebola: Number of confirmed cases in Uganda climbs to 9 ...

The disease previously resulted in 2,299 deaths when it tore through Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo ... that only work against the Zaire species of Ebola (there are four species ...

Kabila was installed as president of Zaire and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic of Congo. In 1998, the Second Congo War broke out following the deterioration of ...

Kabila was installed as president of Zaire and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic of Congo. In 1998, the Second Congo War broke out following the deterioration of relations ...