The director-general of the World Health Organization has praised Uganda for its response to the Ebola outbreak in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Cong…

The director-general of the UN's World Health Organization (WHO) , Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, visited Uganda on Monday, which borders the epicenter of the lat…

Live Science spoke with Dr. Ali S. Khan, an epidemiologist and former assistant surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service, about the ongoing Ebola epid…

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Nicholas Enrich worked for the United States Agency for International Development under four administrations and was dismissed after leaking memos detailing pl…

Israel and Iran traded fire early Monday in retaliatory strikes, Trump walked out of an interview after being pressed on election fraud claims, ebola outbreak …

Members of a Congolese Red Cross team carry the coffin of a woman suspected of having died from Ebola virus disease during her safe burial at a cemetery in Bun…

Fans from around the world are starting to arrive in North America for the largest-ever World Cup , but an outbreak of the Ebola virus in East Africa has put h…

A doctor from the United States who fell ill with Ebola while working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has recovered after more than two weeks of …

The rare Bundibugyo type of Ebola that Congo is battling took locals by surprise after weeks of spreading unnoticed. Hundreds of cases were suspected when Cong…

Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is home to several hundred mountain gorillas -- about a third of the population. Rangers are setting …