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The water-borne infection can be fatal in up to 50% of untreated cases Factors including economic crises, climate change and the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic have led to the ideal circumstances for cholera to flourish in high-risk countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned after noting a sharp …

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visited opposition-held northwestern Syria on Wednesday, his first trip to areas outside Damascus’s control since a devastating quake last month, an AFP correspondent reported. Tedros was the highest-ranking United Nations official to visit the opposition-held zones since the February 6 quake. He entered …

The COVID-19 pandemic may be approaching an ”inflection point” where increased immunity levels may limit the impact of the virus on morbidity and mortality, the World Health Organization said Monday. The 170,000 COVID-19-related deaths reported globally within the last eight weeks meant that the pandemic remains a public health emergency …

Global experts have agreed to refer to monkeypox virus variants by Roman numerals

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) members re-elected Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as Director-General by a strong majority for another five years, the president of the World Health Assembly said on Tuesday. The vote by secret ballot, announced by Ahmed Robleh Abdilleh from Djibouti at a major annual meeting, was seen as …

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is spreading faster than the Delta variant and is causing infections in people already vaccinated or who have recovered from the COVID-19 disease, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. “There is now consistent evidence that Omicron is spreading significantly …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the prospect of returning to normal life will not be possible for the “foreseeable future” as many countries have untimely eased restrictions in their fight against the new coronavirus pandemic. WHO’s Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus raised the alarm on Monday and …

It is not certain that scientists will be able to create an effective vaccine against the coronavirus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, but it could take a year before one were to be invented, the head of the World Health Organisation said. Speaking by video-conference to deputies from the …

Five people, including a 15-year-old girl, have died of Ebola in a fresh outbreak of the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations Children’s Fund said Monday. Nine cases total have been reported, UNICEF said. “Four additional people who contracted the virus — all contacts of the …

World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised on Monday the United States’ “immense” contribution to global health and urged a continuation of good ties despite President Donald Trump’s move to quit the U.N. body. Trump said on Friday he would cut ties with the WHO, accusing it of …

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that there were “worrying upward trends” in early epidemics in parts of Africa and Central and South America, while also warning that opening up global travel needed to be managed carefully. “Most countries are still in the early stages of their epidemics …

The World Health Organization on Wednesday criticized US President Donald Trump’s plan to suspend the contributions of the United States government to its budget in light of the crisis of the outbreak of the Corona virus “emerging Covid-19”. Senior officials at the World Health Organization have pushed back at calls …

In Geneva, the director of the World Health Organization said there’s a “long list of countries not doing enough” to combat the virus. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: “We’re concerned that some countries have either not taken this seriously enough or have decided there is nothing they can do. … This is …