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Paris: The virus causing record cases of avian influenza in birds across the world is changing rapidly, experts have warned, as calls increase for countries to vaccinate their poultry. While emphasising that the risk to humans remains…

Over 50,000 monkeypox cases have been recorded across the world, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) data. However, the transmission is slowing in the virus hotspots of Europe and the United States, said the WHO. The…

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has advised men at risk of contracting monkeypox to consider reducing the number of sexual partners they have "for the moment", the Associated Press…

Geneva: In the strongest call to action, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared monkeypox as a public health emergency on Saturday. It is the seventh time such a declaration has been made since 2009, the most recent being for…

Geneva: World Health Organization has warned that COVID-19 remains a 'Public Health Emergency of International Concern.' WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, fresh waves of COVID-19 cases show that the pandemic is…

Geneva: World Health Organization said it will hold an emergency meeting next week to determine whether to classify the global monkeypox outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern. That is the highest level of warning…

Geneva: The World Health Organization has said that its latest investigation into the origins of COVID-19 was inconclusive, largely because data from China is missing. The report from the WHO expert panel said all available data showed…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published new treatment recommendations for visceral leishmaniasis in patients who are coinfected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The guideline targets visceral leishmaniasis in East…

After one hundred days of the war, Ukraine’s health system is under severe pressure and the World Health Organization (WHO) has increased its presence, both in Ukraine and in those countries hosting displaced Ukrainians, to help meet the…

Geneva: New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic (described as “excess mortality”) between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021 was…