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WHO says Zika response plan only 13 percent funded

GENEVA: The World Health Organization's Zika response programme is only 13 percent funded, "severely" compromising efforts to combat the virus that is increasingly becoming a global threat, the UN agency said Monday.

WHO rejects call for Olympics to be moved due to Zika

GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday rejected a call for the Rio Olympic Games to be moved or postponed due to the threat posed by large outbreak of Zika virus in Brazil.

Medical experts want Rio Olympics delayed or moved due to Zika

More than 100 medical experts, academia and scientists on Friday have called for the Rio Olympic Games to be postponed or moved because of fears that the event could speed up the spread of the Zika virus around the world.

World Bank launches $500 million insurance fund to fight pandemics

NEW YORK: The World Bank on Saturday said it was launching a $500 million, fast-disbursing insurance fund to combat deadly pandemics in poor countries, creating the world's first insurance market for pandemic risk.

WHO calls emergency meeting on yellow fever outbreak

GENEVA: Eleven people have tested positive for yellow fever in China after returning from Angola, highlighting "the risk of international spread through non-immunised travellers," WHO has said.

Liberia’s last known Ebola patients discharged from hospital

MONROVIA: Liberia's last two known Ebola patients have been discharged from hospital after recovering from the disease, the ministry of health here said.

Colombia’s illegal mining linked to malaria outbreak

BOGOTA: Colombia's widespread illegal mining is blamed for causing environmental damage and holding workers in slave-like conditions -- and now is also being blamed for a malaria outbreak.

WHO says Ebola international health emergency is over

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: The World Health Organization said Tuesday that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa no longer constitutes an international emergency, voicing confidence that remaining isolated cases in the affected countries can be contained.

Large-scale trials for Zika vaccines at least 18 months away: WHO

GENEVA: Large-scale trials for Zika virus vaccines are at least 18 months away, while establishing a possible link between the virus and two more harmful conditions will likely only take weeks, the World Health Organization said Friday.

The World Health Organization’s critical challenge: healing itself

GENEVA: When executive board members of the World Health Organization sat down for their annual meeting in Geneva in January, many powerful figures spoke forcefully of the need to reform the leading global authority on health and disease.

Fearing global spread WHO creates Zika virus response unit

GENEVA: The World Health Organization said Tuesday it had created a global unit to respond to the Zika virus, voicing fears the disease blamed for a surge in birth defects in South America could spread across Africa and Asia.

Olympic committee gives thumbs-up to anti-Zika virus measures

LOS ANGELES: International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has welcomed measures being taken to tackle the mosquito-borne Zika virus and believes the spread of the virus across South America will not adversely affect the Rio de Janeiro Games in August.

WHO meets to decide whether to declare Zika virus a global emergency

GENEVA: Independent experts to the World Health Organization began deliberating on Monday whether to declare a global emergency over the Zika virus, which has been linked to thousands of birth defects in Brazil.

Polio vaccination drive underway in Punjab

LAHORE: Three-day polio vaccination campaign is underway across Punjab in which 18 million children will be immunized, ARY News reported.

Beijing slashes traffic in pollution red alert

BEIJING: Half of Beijing's private cars were ordered off the streets Tuesday and many construction sites and schools were closed under the Chinese capital's first-ever red alert for pollution.

420,000 die from contaminated food annually, a third of them young children: WHO

GENEVA: Some 600 million people get sick from eating contaminated food each year, and around 420,000 die, the World Health Organization said Thursday, adding that young children account for nearly one third of those deaths.

China suffers 250,000 road deaths a year: WHO

PEKIN, China: More than 250,000 people are killed on China's notoriously dangerous roads every year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said -- over four times official government statistics.

Karachi and Peshawar among top 20 polluted cities in the world

According to a recent list issued by the World Health Organization, Karachi is slated at number 5 whilst Peshawar is at number 6 and Rawalpindi at 7, in the top 20 most polluted cities in the world.

Polio eradicators hail historic progress, aim to ‘finish the job’

The world is closer than ever to being able to wipe out polio, international experts said on Thursday, with zero cases of the crippling disease recorded across all of Africa this year and fewer than 25 globally.

World Health Day: From farm to plate!

Pakistan, along with the rest of the world, is celebrating World Health Day today.
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