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Poliovirus: WHO extends travel restrictions on Pakistan

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has extended travel restrictions on Pakistan for 90 days amid outbreak of polio cases. The extension came during the meeting...

Kids feel less family support, more school pressure: WHO

Kids in Europe, Canada and Central Asia feel less family support and more school pressure than before, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Wednesday,...

WHO chief says north Gaza in ‘catastrophic’ danger

The World Health Organization (WHO) chief warned of a disastrous situation in the north of war-ravaged Gaza, with "intensive military operations unfolding around and...

WHO declares Egypt malaria free after nearly century of efforts

Egypt has achieved a significant milestone in public health as the World Health Organization (WHO) certified the nation as malaria-free, marking the elimination of...

Mpox vaccine access set to speed up as WHO approves first jab

The WHO said Friday it had for the first time prequalified an mpox vaccine -- a move expected to speed up access to the...

Polio vaccine push moves to northern Gaza amid disruptions: WHO

GENEVA: The third phase of a giant polio vaccination drive targeting children in Gaza began Tuesday in a particularly war-ravaged zone but the WHO...

WHO Identifies fake pharmaceutical raw material supply in Pakistan: DRAP

ISLAMABAD: In a shocking revelation, the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified the supply of fake raw materials for drug manufacturing in Pakistan's pharmaceutical...

WHO warns more mpox to come in Europe

The WHO on Thursday warned further imported cases of the new, more dangerous mpox strain in Europe were likely, after Sweden announced the first...

WHO confirms first case of mpox in Sweden

Global health officials on Thursday confirmed an infection with a new strain of the mpox virus in Sweden and linked it to a growing...

Why is mpox an emergency again, and how worried should I be?

The World Health Organization(WHO) declared that an outbreak of mpox, a viral infection that spreads through close contact, represents a global health emergency for...

WHO declares mpox a global public health emergency

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years, following an outbreak of the...

WHO chief Tedros says polio detected in Gaza, appeals for action

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that polio had been detected in Gaza and warned that children in...

Human case of bird flu detected in India, confirms WHO

The World Health Organization on Tuesday said a case of human infection with bird flu caused by the H9N2 virus was detected in a...

WHO blames 4 major industries for 2.7 mn deaths a year in Europe

The WHO on Wednesday blamed four major industries -- tobacco, ultra-processed foods (UPFs), fossil fuel and alcohol -- for 2.7 million deaths a year...

After COVID, WHO defines disease spread ‘through air’

The World Health Organization and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the...

WHO says 9,000 patients need emergency evacuation from Gaza

Some 9,000 patients in the Gaza Strip require evacuation for emergency care, with the war-torn Palestinian territory down to just 10 barely functioning hospitals,...

WHO urges Israel to drop Rafah invasion plan ‘in name of humanity’

UNITED NATIONS: The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Sunday implored Israel “in the name of humanity” not to begin an assault on...

Growing cancer burden masks inequity among rich and poor nations

There were an estimated 20 million cancer cases and 9.7 million cancer deaths in 2022, the World Health Organization’s cancer research agency said...

WHO team calls Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital a ‘bloodbath’

The emergency department at the Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza, devastated by Israel's bombardments, is "a bloodbath" and is "in need of resuscitation", the...

WHO urges immediate humanitarian aid for Gaza

The World Health Organization's (WHO) executive board on Sunday adopted a resolution on tackling the worsening health situation in the Gaza Strip, calling for...
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