World Apr 22 UN health agency head calls for safe passage of humanitarian aid in Gaza By Associated Press
Health Dec 21 WHO concerned over increasing reports of severe COVID-19 cases in China It warned China's lagging vaccination rate could mean large numbers of vulnerable people are sickened by the omicron variant, the most infectious version yet seen of COVID-19. By Associated Press
World Nov 23 In wake of pandemic, record 40 million kids missed measles vaccine dose last year, CDC and WHO say The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say measles immunization has dropped significantly since the coronavirus pandemic began, resulting in a record high of nearly 40 million children missing a vaccine dose last year. By Associated Press
World Aug 25 WHO chief laments inability to help ‘starving’ relatives in Tigray He said Thursday that he has relatives he cannot communicate with or send money to amid a blockade by government forces. They were some of the most personal comments among many he has made about Tigray. By Associated Press
World Aug 10 Confirmed global COVID-19 deaths fall by 9 percent in past week as many countries scale back on surveillance, WHO says The World Health Organization says in its latest weekly pandemic report that the number of coronavirus deaths fell by 9 percent in the last week while new cases remained relatively stable. By Associated Press
Jul 23 Watch 2:59 News Wrap: WHO calls monkeypox virus a global emergency In our news wrap Saturday, the WHO announced the monkeypox virus has now reached more than 70 countries and should be treated as a global emergency, two Americans were killed in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region while elsewhere Russia targeted Odesa,… Continue watching
Jul 23 WHO chief declares monkeypox a global emergency By Maria Cheng, Associated Press WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the decision to issue the declaration despite a lack of consensus among experts serving on the U.N. health agency's emergency committee. It was the first time the chief of the U.N. health agency has… Continue reading
Jul 01 African officials treating monkeypox spread as an emergency, call for equitable vaccine distribution By Farai Mutsaka, Associated Press Health authorities in Africa say they are treating the expanding monkeypox outbreak here as an emergency and call on rich countries to share the world's limited supply of vaccines. Continue reading
May 26 WHO says COVID-19 cases are falling globally, except in the Americas By Associated Press In its latest weekly assessment, the U.N. health agency said there were more than 3.7 million new infections and 9,000 deaths in the last week, drops of 3 percent and 11 percent respectively. Continue reading
May 23 Monkeypox outbreak likely spread by sex at 2 raves in Europe, says WHO expert By Maria Cheng, Associated Press A doctor who chairs a World Health Organization expert group has described the unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox in developed countries as "a random event" that might be explained by risky sexual behavior at two recent mass events… Continue reading