Ebola outbreak in Congo kills dozens, may be hitting hundreds more, Africa’s CDC says

Kinshasa, Congo — Africa CDC, the continent’s top public health body, on Friday confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in Congo’s remote Ituri province, with 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths recorded so far. The deaths and suspected cases have been recorded mainly in the Mongwalu and Rwampara health zones, the Africa Centres for Disease Control … Read more

South Africa’s great white sharks mysteriously vanished. Scientists can’t agree who, or what, is the culprit.

When great white sharks started vanishing from the coastal waters around Cape Town, South Africa, some scientists and conservationists were mystified. Those waters teemed with great white sharks when 60 Minutes correspondent Anderson Cooper went diving with the predators in 2010. The area was home to smaller sharks and seals that the great whites hunted, … Read more