Four weeks after a puzzling outbreak was reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization has identified the cause.

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A mysterious illness, which the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is calling "disease X," has killed at least 31 people — mostly children — in the remote Panzi region of the ...

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Africa’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention — Africa CDC — says it is working to identify a new disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has claimed at least 79 lives and ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflected a revised death count for Disease X. They're calling it Disease X. It's a mysterious illness circulating in a remote part of the Democratic ...

A mysterious, flu-like disease has killed dozens in the southwest region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with women and children among the most affected, health officials said Thursday.

Early diagnostics indicate it could be a respiratory disease, Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director-General Jean Kaseya told the Associated Press. It’s “really important ...

It would be more appropriate to say that, currently, this is an undiagnosed morbidity and mortality event," Dunning told ... The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC ...

Yes. An official from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) previously told Euronews Health that the agency is working with the DRC government to investigate the alert.

A mysterious disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo has infected more than 400 people and killed more than 30, mostly children, according to the World Health Organization. The WHO was ...

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