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Nation Jul 01

News Wrap: Barrage of Russian missiles kills 21 in southern Ukraine

Health Jul 01

A healthcare worker prepares a syringe at a monkeypox vaccination clinic run by CIUSSS public health authorities in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 6, 2022. Photo by Christinne Muschi/REUTERS
African officials treating monkeypox spread as an emergency, call for equitable vaccine distribution

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.

By Farai Mutsaka, Associated Press

Nation Jun 29

FILE PHOTO: European Union - African Union summit in Brussels
WHO chief says U.S. abortion ruling is ‘a setback’ and will cost lives

The head of the World Health Organization has criticized the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called the decision to no longer recognize a constitutional right to abortion “a setback” that would…

By Associated Press

Health Jun 23

FILE PHOTO: Illustration shows test tubes labelled "Monkeypox virus positive
WHO considers declaring growing monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency

The World Health Organization convenes its emergency committee Thursday to consider if the spiraling outbreak of monkeypox warrants being declared a global emergency.

By Maria Cheng, Associated Press

World May 30

A section of skin tissue, harvested from a lesion on the skin of a monkey, that had been infected with monkeypox virus
WHO’s top monkeypox expert says disease unlikely to become global pandemic

The World Health Organization's top monkeypox expert said she doesn't expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns about the disease, including how exactly it's spreading and whether…

By Maria Cheng, Associated Press

May 27

WHO calls monkeypox outbreaks containable, proposes stockpile to share vaccines and treatment

By Maria Cheng, Associated Press

The World Health Organization says nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have been reported in more than 20 countries not usually known to have outbreaks of the unusual disease, but described the epidemic as “containable."…

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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.

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May 23

What you need to know about monkeypox and how it spreads

By Maria Cheng, Associated Press

European and American health authorities have identified a number of cases of monkeypox, a surprising outbreak of an illness that has previously been limited mostly to central and western Africa.

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May 22

COVID-19 pandemic ‘not over’ with nearly 1 billion unvaccinated globally, WHO chief says

By Associated Press

In a weekly report Thursday on the global situation, WHO said the number of new COVID-19 cases appears to have stabilized after weeks of decline since late March, while the overall number of weekly deaths dropped.

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May 05

WHO estimates nearly 15 million deaths associated with COVID, more than double official toll

By Maria Cheng, Associated Press

The World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years.

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