Ebola vaccination begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
On Sept. 14, 2025, the World Health Organization announced that vaccination of frontline health workers and contacts of…
Democratic Republic of the Congo Declares Ebola Virus Outbreak
On Sept. 4, 2025, Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have declared an outbreak of…
Africa CDC Deployed Experts to Investigate unknown Disease X outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo
On Dec. 9, 2024, the Africa Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced that it is working closely with…
Health officials investigated mystery disease in southwest Congo after 143 deaths
On Dec. 3, 2024, Congolese officials reported that a flu-like disease that has killed dozens of people over…
Ebola trial candidate vaccines arrived in Uganda in record 79 days after outbreak declared
On Dec. 9, 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the first doses of one of the…
first human case of mpox Reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo
In 1970, the first human case of mpox was reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)…
mpox was first discovered
In 1958, mpox (MPVX) was first discovered when two nonfatal outbreaks of a pox-like disease were reported in…