While 330 Ebola infections are confirmed in central Africa and huge challenges remain, hundreds more suspected cases "have been cleared out," the WHO says.

A chronic lack of investment in development of better tests has left clinicians blind and allows deadly viruses to spread unchecked.

Health officials are scrambling to fast-track a vaccine as the Democratic Republic of Congo battles a growing Ebola outbreak with at least 282 confirmed cases of the rare Bundibugyo strain and 42 deaths.

By Ange Kasongo KINSHASA, June 1 (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization on Monday concluded his visit to Democratic Republic of Congo by briefing the president on the response to the Ebola outbreak,

Volunteers are supporting Congo's Ebola outbreak response with cooked meals in a program assisted by the U.N. food agency.

The epicenter of the Ebola outbreak is in Mongbwalu, a poor gold-mining town of 130,000 people, in Ituri province, in eastern Congo.

The United States on ⁠Tuesday ⁠imposed sanctions on commanders ⁠of armed groups it accused of driving the conflict ​in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where fighting has continued despite mediation efforts by ‌Washington.

We are in the quickening heart of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo—where metrics like per capita nutrition levels and water quality would suggest a near-death state of being.