In addition to pre-exposure vaccination against mpox and post exposure management, heath workers and all frontline workers should always observe strict infection prevention and control procedures and ...

New network launched to establish best practices for wastewater surveillance of pathogens with potential to cause a pandemic.The network ...

The Mpox virus (formerly known as monkeypox) continues to make an unsettling return across several communities in West and Central African countries, with Sierra Leone becoming the latest ...

The director of the Africa CDC believes the abrupt cutoff of Western aid will cause great suffering to Africans. At the same ...

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo are scrambling to contain an Ebola outbreak after a second person died from the virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday.

There have been fourteen Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1976. The new outbreak is the sixth one since 2018 – the most frequent occurrence in the country’s Ebola history, ...

Since 1976, there have been 14 outbreaks of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The most recent was in 2021, followed by 2020 when there was an outbreak that saw 140 cases of the disease ...

From June 1 to November 18, 2020, the 11th outbreak of Ebola virus disease occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo. An expanded-access program was developed to offer patients a single monoclon ...

Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Thursday that the country's 13th outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus was over, and the country was facing no new cases for the last 42 days ...

During the 2018–2020 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, EVD was diagnosed in a patient who had received the recombinant vesicular ...