The number of deaths comes as healthcare workers threaten to walk off the job over a delay in payments.

The strain of the virus that's responsible for the current outbreak has no specific treatments or preventive measures. Three new clinical trials could provide possible breakthroughs.

A violent militia that controls large swaths of Congolese territory in the east may use the virus to try to bolster its authority.

Multiple new clinical trials are underway to evaluate if various treatments will prove effective against the Bundibugyo Ebola virus in the DRC. A

The rapid spread of a rare Ebola strain through Central and East Africa is testing local public health authorities and raising concerns about the state of global health security.

The World Health Organization and the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are scrambling to contain a fast-moving Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda that has claimed nearly 400 lives and sparked alarm across the globe.

To add to an already difficult public health crisis, some healthcare workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have gone on strike, saying they are fighting an Ebola virus in an outbreak with inadequate equipment and low wages,

As Uganda battles an Ebola outbreak linked to neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), TikTok videos claim President Yoweri Museveni announced nationwide school closures at the end of May. However,