In a February 16 bulletin, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that “two clusters of cases and deaths from an unknown disease have emerged” in the country’s Équateur Province, with a total of 431 ...

A mystery illness has caused over 50 deaths​ in the Democratic Republic of Congo. One of the outbreaks was preliminarily linked to children who had eaten a bat carcass, the WHO said.

The first cases occurred after children ate bats. Now hundreds of people in two villages are sick, and more than 50 are dead.

A rapidly spreading unknown illness has killed 53 people in Congo, with preliminary investigations linking the outbreak to ...

Within five weeks, an unknown illness has killed 53 people in northwestern Congo, which has been traced back to three ...

An outbreak of an unknown virus which has already killed more than 50 people risks spreading beyond the borders of Congo, ...

Health experts across the world are on alert amid the outbreak of a mystery illness in Congo, which has so far killed more ...

More than 50 people have died from the unidentified illness, with many succumbing just hours after symptoms first appeared.

Health experts say an unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people ...

At least 53 people have died from a fast-spreading illness in two villages, with symptoms proving fatal within 48 hours. The World Health Organization has been monitoring the outbreak since January.

The World Health Organization and doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo have reported an unknown illness that has so ...