The recent discovery of new coronavirus strains has triggered fears of a new wave of restrictions, more than three years since the COVID-19 pandemic forced…
The Nigerian scientist who diagnosed the first recent mpox case discusses whether the health emergency is really over. In 2017 in Nigeria, Dr Dimie Ogoina…
World Health Organisation says sweetener found in diet drinks and other food items is a possible cause of cancer but still safe to consume in…
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the decision was prompted by falling case numbers worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it is ending…
Mpox is no longer a global health emergency, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), ending a near year-long alert for the viral disease that…
UN health agency declares end to public health emergency of international concern, in place for more than three years. COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a…
The WHO says the woman, who died in March, probably contracted the virus at a live poultry market and the risk of further spread is…
Chinese health officials have defended their search for the source of the COVID-19 virus and lashed out at the World Health Organization after its leader said…
Turning history’s page on its deadliest conflict, countries came together in 1948 to heal a bloodied world. Following years of war, distrust and pain, nations…
WHO recommends primary doses and a first booster in healthy adults, children and adolescents with comorbidities. The World Health Organization (WHO) says it no longer…
Three of the eight confirmed cases are receiving treatment even as 161 contacts are being monitored, according to the WHO. Tanzania has confirmed eight cases…
Three years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, questions linger about the origins of the virus that shut…
Unanimous House vote sends bill to declassify US intelligence info related to COVID origins to US President Joe Biden. The United States House of Representatives…
The World Health Organization has urged all countries to reveal what they know about the origins of COVID-19 following claims by the United States that…
FBI Director Christopher Wray accuses China of thwarting efforts to identify the origin of the COVID-19 outbreak. FBI Director Christopher Wray says his agency has…
Investigations into the origins of a virus that has now killed nearly 7 million people have been hampered by politics and a lack of access…
The World Health Organization (WHO) says one woman dies every two minutes during pregnancy or childbirth, according to the latest data, with too few countries…
Climate change forecasters have warned for years that the warmer and wetter world created by the climate crisis will drive a surge in mosquito-borne diseases,…
The country officially declared its first outbreak of Marburg virus disease on Monday. The World Health Organization (WHO) has “intensified” surveillance after Equatorial Guinea confirmed…
Cameroonian authorities said the border movement restrictions were imposed in view of ‘the high risk of importation’ of the unidentified illness. Cameroon has restricted movement…