Gutting USAID is already having a devastating impact around the world. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, teams that would normally be racing to identify a fatal sickness are gone.

SCIENTISTS have found a pill that offers ‘100 per cent protection’ against Ebola – sparking hopes of eradicating the deadly ...

The pill protected 80 per cent of the cynomolgus macaques and 100 per cent of the rhesus macaques, which are biologically closer to humans.

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

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

Scientists have found that an oral antiviral drug successfully prevents monkeys from dying after an Ebola infection, an advance that may prevent future outbreaks of the deadly virus. The deadly Ebola ...

The trial did not find remdesivir is deadly, and trials in COVID patients have found adverse effects are generally mild and rare. AAP FACTCHECK - Antiviral drug remdesivir was not found to be "toxic" ...

Violence in DR Congo has sent thousands of people fleeing into neighbouring countries. Funding is desperately needed to feed ...

If the outbreak is caused by a viral hemorrhagic fever like Ebola, which spreads from person ... and that effort is under way in the DRC. The first people involved in the outbreak had reportedly ...

Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the DRC. Disease, child slavery and Christian persecution stalk the population.

Uganda also borders Rwanda, which emerged from a Marburg outbreak in December, and Democratic Republic of Congo, where outbreaks of Ebola are common.