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ENGLAND HIT BY 50-YEAR SPIKE IN BACTERIAL INFECTION
A new study says England is seeing a dramatic increase in cases of scarlet fever, an infectious disease that mostly affects children... READ MORE›
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ZIKA VIRUS MAY BE LINKED TO SURGE IN RARE SYNDROME IN BRAZIL
The virus, called Zika, made its way to Brazil recently but is spreading rapidly around Latin America and the Caribbean... READ MORE›
EBOLA OUTBREAK: HUSBAND OF SPANISH NURSE PLACED IN QUARANTINE
Ebola outbreak Spread of deadly disease across Europe is 'unavoidable', warns WHO chief... READ MORE›
LIBERIA IS FREE OF EBOLA, SAYS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Liberia is free of Ebola after going 42 days without any new cases, the World Health Organization WHO announced Saturday... READ MORE›
PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOLSTER LOCAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS LIKELY TO SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE AMERICAS, SAYS WHO
Evidence includes temporal association between Zika outbreaks and microcephaly outbreaks both in Brazil and French Polynesia, she said... READ MORE›
IT'S GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN 200 YEARS TO CLOSE THE WORKPLACE EQUALITY GAP. HERE'S WHY IT'S GETTING WORSE.
It may take women around the world more than two centuries to achieve workplace equality, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum... READ MORE›
AID GROUPS AIM TO PUT MENTAL HEALTH ON WORLD AGENDA
Good mental health care is scarce in many parts of the United States, but it is nonexistent in most of the world... READ MORE›
BRAZIL ON HIGH ALERT AS YELLOW FEVER THREATENS MAJOR CITIES
What we have is an epidemic of disinformation about yellow fever ..... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS IS NO LONGER A GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY, UN HEALTH AGENCY SAYS
If anything, this has been escalated in importance by becoming activities that will be continued in the long-term in the World Health Organization, he said... READ MORE›
SUICIDE RATE IS HIGHEST IN EUROPE
Almost 800,000 deaths by suicide occurred in 2015, according to World Health Statistics, a publication from the World Health Organization WHO ... READ MORE›
PANELS ADVISE BOLSTERING WHO FOR CRISES LIKE EBOLA
Problems with outbreak preparedness reach far beyond the World Health Organization... READ MORE›
MORE THAN 150 KILLED IN ANGOLA YELLOW FEVER OUTBREAK
A yellow fever epidemic has killed 158 people in Angola, with more than 50 deaths occurring last month alone, the World Health Organization officials have said... READ MORE›
WHO ZIKA NO LONGER A WORLD HEALTH EMERGENCY
The gambusia eat the larvae of the Aedes aegypti mosquito which is the one most responsible for the spread of the Zika Virus... READ MORE›
ZIKA LOOMS IN ASIA, TEMPERED BY A FULLER VIEW OF ITS DANGERS
But although the Zika strain circulating in Latin America is originally from Asia, health experts know little about its history on that side of the Pacific... READ MORE›
JAPAN TO EMPHASIZE ITS HEALTH CARE AID AT NEXT G-7 SUMMIT
The Abe government is considering emphasizing measures to help spread basic health and medical care in developing countries as one of its foreign policy pr... READ MORE›
[PHOTOS] ETHIOPIA'S TEDROS RETURNS HOME AFTER HISTORIC WHO DG POLLS
He was met by a high-level government delegation that included the current health minister, Prof. Yifru Berhan and foreign affairs state minister, Hirut Zemene... READ MORE›
VENOM EXPERTS SAY GLOBAL SNAKE BITE DEATH TOLLS ARE GROSSLY UNDERESTIMATED
Citing new evidence from a study in India and Bangladesh the experts said around 46 000 people died annually of snake bites in India plus another 6 000 in Bangladesh... READ MORE›
ZIKA FOREST, MOSQUITO PARADISE WHERE VIRUS WAS FIRST FOUND
It was in the thick woodland of Zika forest, some 25 km 15 miles from Uganda's capital, Kampala, that the mosquito-borne Zika virus was first discovered in 1947... READ MORE›
U.N.'S WHO AT CROSSROADS; EXPERTS CALL FOR FRESH FOCUS, STRUCTURE
When executive board members of the World Health Organization sat down for their annual meeting in Geneva in January, many powerful figures spoke forcefull... READ MORE›
80 PERCENT OF CITY-DWELLERS BREATHE BAD AIR, WHO WARNS
When air quality improves, health costs from air pollution-related diseases shrink, worker productivity expands and life expectancy grows... READ MORE›
WHO TERMS DEADLY AFRICAN URBAN YELLOW FEVER OUTBREAK 'SERIOUS' BUT NOT GLOBAL CRISIS, YET
Yellow fever has been raging since last December in Angola, especially in the capital Luanda, killing 293 people to date and infecting another 2,267... READ MORE›
WHO 'LAGGED' IN AFRICA YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC RESPONSE AS MILLION VACCINES VANISH, REST URGED DILUTED
KINSHASA - As a yellow fever outbreak in Central Africa exploded, 1 million vaccines disappeared in Angola... READ MORE›
WHO WORKS TO CONTAIN PLAGUE THAT HAS KILLED 94 ON MADAGASCAR
GENEVA - A plague epidemic has killed 94 people on the island of Madagascar and could spread further, the World Health Organization said on Friday... READ MORE›
LIFE EXPECTANCY WORLDWIDE HAS INCREASED BY FIVE YEARS
Life expectancy worldwide has increased by about five years in the last 15 years, according to a report issued Thursday by the World Health Organization in... READ MORE›
WHO ADMITS RESPONSE TO YELLOW FEVER OUTBREAK IN AFRICA 'LAGGED'
KINSHASA, CONGO--As a yellow fever outbreak in central Africa exploded, one million vaccines disappeared in Angola... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS GROWS ACROSS THE AMERICAS
The concern is strong enough that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month warned pregnant women to reconsider visits to areas where Zika is present... READ MORE›
EXPERTS FEAR ZIKA THREAT JUST BEGINNING AND POISED TO HIT EBOLA-STUNG AFRICA
"The focus is clear, put women at the center of the response and protect them and their children from Zika virus infection... READ MORE›
AS GLOBE-THREATENING YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC EXPLODES IN CONGO, PEOPLE ASK 'WHERE IS THE VACCINE?'
The procedure daubs communities in insecticide to fumigate homes and public spaces that breed Aedes aegypti, the mosquito carrying yellow fever... READ MORE›
NEWLY ELECTED WHO CHIEF REITERATES ONE-CHINA PRINCIPLE
Tedros told the Chinese minister that it was his first bilateral meeting after being elected and he will continue to lead the WHO to further cooperation with China... READ MORE›