Ian Nichols and the National Geographic Society Is there a link to Congo’s forests? There have long been concerns about diseases jumping from animals to humans in places where people regularly ...

Health officials in Congo suspect a mysterious disease that killed 52 people and sickened 943 in Equateur province to be either malaria or food poisoning. Symptoms include fever, fatigue ...

An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say.

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An unknown illness first discovered ... These “hemorrhagic fever” symptoms are commonly linked to known deadly viruses, such as Ebola, dengue, Marburg and yellow ...

Some experts attribute the outbreak to wildlife consumption and Congo’s vast rainforests, which serve as breeding grounds for numerous deadly pathogens ... transfer from animals to humans.