While several coffin makers in Bunia said they were providing a public service, the virus has put them at the center of a debate around safe burials.

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Questioning a state’s investigation is highly unusual for the public health agency, but reflects tensions between the Trump administration and many states over health issues.

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The public health emergencies in 2022 and 2024 saw the virus reported in 145 countries, but in the new cases children appear particularly affected

A fresh outbreak of mpox in Guinea Bissau – the country’s first – means the virus formerly known as monkey pox is back in the headlines. So what has changed?

Since 2022, there have been almost 190,000 lab-confirmed cases of mpox reported worldwide in 145 countries. Before then, outbreaks of mpox tended to be relatively small and in a handful of African countries, where the viral infection was known to be endemic.

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The outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo species of Ebola could become the biggest in history

Exclusive: Sir Jeremy Farrar, who advised the government on Covid, resigns after helping to implement job cuts at global body

Tasmanian devils, platypus and dingoes all at risk of contracting the highly contagious bird flu as the country battles growing case numbers

Congo’s current epidemic is on track to eclipse the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014 to 2016

More than 200 people headed for DRC’s capital Kinshasa are detained following the death of a passenger who had already disembarked

At least a dozen facilities have now been attacked since Congo declared its outbreak

The epidemic has been linked to Clade 1b mpox, a strain that emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Review of the continent’s health security finds that investments since Covid-19 have ‘paid off’

Dozens of fatalities are being recorded each day in what could become the worst ever outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever

The facility, which triggered widespread public opposition, has been opened despite court intervention

Surgeons from Manchester due to travel to Uganda may be forced to cancel if the outbreak is still active

An estimated 63,000 pregnant women are due to give birth in a country that already has one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates