Uganda's Ebola virus caseload has risen to 12, up from 10, with two people who died early last month being considered probable cases, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
Vaccination provides long-lasting 97% protection against measles infection. Most people who have been vaccinated do not need to be vaccinated again.
Authorities investigating the deaths of at least 60 people in northwestern Congo suspect the water source in one of the areas may have been contaminated, the World Health Organization said Friday.
The United States has not moved to quit the Americas branch of the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), despite its wider pullback from global health. President Donald Trump started the 12-month withdrawal process for the U.
The mpox outbreak is still a public health emergency, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. The WHO, which first declared the emergency in August last year, said its decision was based on the continuing rise in the number of mpox cases and the geographic spread of the outbreak.
A longtime Johns Hopkins surgeon and best-selling author, he has advised the World Health Organization and been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. (Makary, whose confirmation hearings kicked off in the Senate this morning,
Mich., said President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs could put Michigan’s auto industry in peril after Trump vowed to save the auto industry during his 2024 campaign.
The eradication of polio as a global health threat may be delayed unless U.S. funding cuts – potentially totaling hundreds of millions of dollars over several years – are reversed, a senior World Health Organization official has warned.
The World Health Organization is investigating "another cluster of illness" in northern Congo, as a deadly mystery disease spreads in the region.
The Mennonite population being affected by a measles outbreak in West Texas is part of a larger, loosely affiliated group of churches worldwide.
It also said 25 healthcare workers and patients had been killed and 121 injured in the West Bank from October 7, 2023 - the date of the deadly Hamas-led attack on Israel that star