World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Sunday said the hantavirus “situation is ...

MOLOTOV, Eden, Hull and Foo Ping-Sheung, speaking for their governments, jointly declared at Moscow on October 30 that "they recognized the necessity of establishing at the earliest practicable date a ...

A top epidemic expert at the U.N. health agency said Wednesday that the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is not like the COVID pandemic.

The World Health Organization turns 75 today. Forged in the years following World War II, many hoped people would finally work together to eradicate some of the world's worst diseases. Every so often ...

The head of the World Health Organization says the hunger crisis in Gaza remains "catastrophic." The comments came two weeks after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect. Israel is required ...

LONDON/GENEVA (Reuters) -Hundreds of World Health Organization officials will join donors and diplomats in Geneva from Monday with one question dominating their thoughts: How to tackle crises from ...

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The aid group World Central Kitchen said Tuesday that it is pausing its efforts to feed Palestinians in Gaza after seven of its workers were killed by an Israeli strike. The nonprofit said in a ...