Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) in its recently report revealed that the number of people infected with tuberculosis, including the kind resistant to drugs, rose globally for the first time in years. The UN health agency said more than 10 million people worldwide were sickened by
Washington: President Joe Biden intends to nominate Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to be the US representative on the World Health Organization's executive board, administration officials told Reuters. Murthy has served as the top US doctor under Biden and under former President Barack Obama. He will continue
Geneva: The world has never been in a better position to end the Covid-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said, urging nations to keep up their efforts against the virus that has killed over six million people. “We are not there yet.
Washington: Amid the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) warning that the humanitarian situation in flood-ravaged Pakistan is expected to get worse, Japan pledged to give emergency aid of $7 million, Qatar launched an air bridge and the UN refugee agency mounted a huge airlift operation from
Geneva: The current flood situation will highly likely increase the spread of disease, especially if and when response capacities are hindered, says the World Health Organization (WHO), as Pakistan continues its relentless battle against deadly floods. In its latest situation report on flooding in Pakistan, the
Geneva: The World Health Organization announced that a million people had died from COVID-19 in 2022, calling it a "tragic milestone" when all the tools existed to prevent deaths. Nearly 6.45 million deaths have been reported to the WHO since the virus was first detected in
London: Polio, a deadly disease that used to paralyse tens of thousands of children every year, is spreading in London, New York, and Jerusalem for the first time in decades, spurring catch-up vaccination campaigns. Dreaded disease Polio terrified parents around the world for the first half of
Geneva: The World Health Organization said genetic changes are being examined to be the cause of the rapid spread of the disease. The two distinct clades, or variants, of the virus were called the Congo Basin (Central African) and West African clades, after the two regions
Geneva: The World Health Organisation, which is looking to rename monkeypox, called Tuesday for help from the public in coming up with a less stigmatising designation for the fast-spreading disease. The UN health agency has for weeks voiced concern about the name of the disease that
Kochi: India confirmed its first monkeypox death on Monday, a young man in the southern state of Kerala, in what is only the fourth known fatality from the disease in the current outbreak. Last week, Spain reported two monkeypox-related deaths and Brazil its first. The death