Rachel Hagan speaks to health workers and aid groups about how difficult it is to stop an outbreak that took weeks to confirm in a country where hospitals and health centres already under strain have been hit by aid cuts from countries like the US and UK

Strain of virus, suspected to have killed around 80 people in recent weeks, has no approved vaccine

‘I’m not trying to start a scare I’m hoping people will see this and realise how dangerous this is,’ says former minister

Rachel Hagan speaks to health workers and aid groups about how difficult it is to stop an outbreak that took weeks to confirm in a country where hospitals and health centres…

At the hospital in Rwampara, one of the epicentres of a deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a simple plastic strip marked off the isolation centre for…

A humanitarian leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo revealed the situation on the ground as hospitals are 'overwhelmed' with the recent outbreak of Ebola

Anxious healthcare workers in eastern Congo said Wednesday they are underprotected and undertrained in a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak of a rare type of the virus in one of the…

BUNIA, Congo: Anxious health care workers in eastern Congo said Wednesday they are underprotected and undertrained in a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak of a rare type of the…

Congo’s Ebola outbreak is exposing the impact of shrinking global health funding as hospitals struggle with shortages of medicine, masks and surveillance capacity

WHO said the global risk is low

Healthcare workers and aid groups in eastern Congo have appealed for more supplies and staff to respond to the outbreak of a rare type of Ebola, as armed groups continued to…

The World Health Organization on Friday said the outbreak is spreading rapidly and now poses a “very high” risk nationally.

The World Health Organization says more than a hundred deaths are thought to be linked to this outbreak, with nearly 600 suspected cases so far.

The World Health Organization says more than 170 deaths are thought to be linked to this outbreak, with nearly 750 suspected cases so far.

New strain of virus, aid cuts and cultural norms around burials and touch add to difficulties in stemming outbreak