A mystery illness has caused 60 deaths​ in the Democratic Republic of Congo. One of the outbreaks was preliminarily linked to children who had eaten a bat carcass.

The fast-spreading mystery illness has killed scores of people, with nearly half dying within 48 hours of showing symptoms, ...

It wouldn’t be surprising, given that many viruses have been linked to bats, including the Ebola, Marburg, Nipah and Hendra viruses, as well as coronaviruses like SARS-1 and MERS. But the bats ...

The outbreak has been traced, tentatively, to three children who ate a bat, the W.H.O. said, and known threats like Ebola and ...

A rapidly spreading unknown illness has killed 53 people in Congo, with preliminary investigations linking the outbreak to ...

The World Health Organization is investigating "another cluster of illness" in northern Congo, as a deadly mystery disease ...

CASES of a mystery disease which has killed over 50 people and left hundreds sick in the Congo could rise and spread to the ...

Bats’ status as the only truly flying mammals might mean they also have another ‘superpower’ — invincibility to most viruses ...

Over 50 people are dead in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo due to an unknown virus, according to the World ...

An unidentified illness has killed more than 50 people in the north-west region of Democratic Republic of the Congo . As ...