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The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that it is preparing for an increased spread of viral diseases like dengue, Zika and chikungunya linked to the El Nino event

The WHO in its initial assessment in 2021 had stated that it was "extremely unlikely" that Covid might have spilled into humans from a lab

WHO Covid vaccine composition advisory group has recommended that vaccine makers drop the ancestral strain

World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency

Climate change can lead to global outbreak of mosquito-borne diseases, warned the World Health Organization on Wednesday.

Joint advisory issued by Health Ministry and ICMR, asks both public and private hospitals in all districts to participate in the Covid mock drill to take stock of the preparedness

With the confirmation of another 8 cases, Equatorial Guinea's total number of the “highly virulent” Marburg virus cases rise to nine, said the World Health Organisation

Wuhan is home to several labs involved in collecting and studying coronaviruses, fueling theories scientists say are plausible that the virus may have leaked from one.

World Health Organization has warned that people are ingesting more than twice as much salt as they should each day

WHO said its experts acknowledged the progress in the global response to the mpox outbreak and a further decline in the number of reported cases during the last few months.

"These are toxic chemicals used as industrial solvents and antifreeze agents, which can be fatal ingested even in small amounts, and should never be found in medicines."

"We're hopeful that at some point next year, we will be able to say that Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency," he said.

Madrid: The Spanish Health Ministry has confirmed the first death from monkeypox in the country. The news came less than a week after the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global health emergency, reporters Xinhua news agency. Until now, 4,298 cases of the virus have been confirmed in Spain, and 120 people were admitted to […]

With the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring monkeypox as a global health emergency, the healthcare administration must gear up to meet the new challenge without spreading panic. India has learnt some hard lessons from the devastating Covid-19 pandemic, scaled up its healthcare infrastructure and response systems and, therefore, is now in a better position to […]

Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has reconvened the Monkeypox Emergency Committee to assess the public health implications of the evolving multi-country outbreak. This comes as global cases passed 14,000, with six countries reporting their first cases last week. The committee first met last month but decided against declaring it a public health emergency of […]

Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has been keeping a close eye on the puzzling spread of hepatitis in previously healthy children, which has left dozens needing life-saving liver transplants. As many as 35 countries in five regions of the world have now reported more than 1,010 probable cases of unexplained severe acute hepatitis, or […]

By Biswajit Dhar The World Health Organization (WHO) has called it “vaccine apartheid”: developed economies who can pay for Covid-19 vaccines have much higher rates of vaccination than developing economies. Only 21% of people in low-income countries have received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose, partly because pharmaceutical companies have refused to temporarily waive their […]

Moscow: The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the risk of the spread of Monkeypox in Europe, including Russia, is high. “According to the WHO assessment, at the regional level, the risk in the WHO European Region is high over reports about the widespread outbreak which engulfed several previously untouched countries and some atypical […]

Ottawa: Canada has confirmed 58 cases of monkeypox, the country’s Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam said. Speaking to reporters at a health briefing, Tam said the confirmed cases have been reported nationally, including 52 cases from Quebec, five from Ontario and one from Alberta, reports Xinhua news agency. She said the risk of exposure […]

Mumbai: A “tremendous” rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in Mumbai is driving a surge in new infections in Maharashtra over the last few days, data showed, with a top official expressing fear that the approaching monsoon could herald a spate of symptomatic cases. Maharashtra had recorded 169 new cases on May 1, while […]