By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Cholera is a diarrheal disease caused by ingestion of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium. In November 2017, a cholera epidemic occurred in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The measles outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues from 2019’s large outbreak. During the first 12 weeks of 2020, a total of 42,143...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Eight additional wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases were reported last week–five for 2019 and three for 2020–in Pakistan. The cases were reported from...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The measles outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the largest in the world and continues to trend and spread geographically. Through September...

Three volunteers of the Red Cross Society were on Tuesday injured after being attacked while carrying out a safe burial of one Ebola victim in Butembo in the North Kivu area east of the Democratic Republic...

Since the end of November 2017, Kinshasa province has been facing an outbreak of cholera. Since that time, 1065 cases including 43 deaths (case fatality rate = 4%) have been reported from 32 out of 35...

In an update in multiple cholera outbreaks in Africa, many countries with ongoing cholera outbreaks in the African Region have observed resurgence in the disease trends in recent weeks. This phenomenon...

According to a World Health Organization (WHO) news release Friday, a major part of the largest emergency vaccination campaign against yellow fever ever attempted in Africa has been completed, with more...

In mid-May, the World Health Organization (WHO) IHR Emergency Committee on Yellow Fever convened and decided that the urban yellow fever outbreaks in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo is...

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced this week they would be launching emergency preemptive vaccination campaigns on the DR Congo, Angola border and the city of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic...