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October 4, 2024 11:10 AM
Rwanda is battling its first-ever outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, with 36 cases reported so far and 11 deaths. The World Health Organization said this week the risk of the outbreak is very high in Rwanda, high across the African region, and lo...
September 13, 2024 3:59 PM
The World Health Organization said on Friday it had cleared Bavarian Nordic's vaccine as the first shot against mpox. The approval, known as a pre-qualification, is an official list of medicines used as a benchmark for procurement by developing coun...
September 4, 2024 11:56 AM
There is no link between mobile phone use and an increased risk of brain cancer, according to a new World Health Organization-commissioned review of available published evidence worldwide. Despite the huge rise in the use of wireless technology, the...
August 29, 2024 11:04 PM
The Israeli military and Palestinian militant group Hamas have agreed to three separate, zoned three-day pauses in fighting in the Gaza Strip to allow for the vaccination of some 640,000 children against polio, a senior WHO official said on Thursday....
August 23, 2024 5:36 PM
The World Health Organization said on Friday its partners like Gavi and Unicef can start buying mpox vaccines before they are approved in a bid to get inoculations to Africa faster as the continent battles an escalating outbreak of the virus. Tradit...
August 19, 2024 11:49 AM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has intensified the oversight of India’s Mpox preparedness following the World Health Organization's (WHO) recent declaration of the disease as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The WHO renewed...
August 8, 2024 12:08 PM
The head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday an emergency committee will be convened to discuss whether the current mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo represents a public health emergency of international concern. The c...
July 26, 2024 4:38 PM
The World Health Organization is sending more than one million polio vaccines to Gaza to be administered over the coming weeks to prevent children being infected after the virus was detected in sewage samples, its chief said on Friday. "While no cas...
July 16, 2024 3:25 PM
Gambia's parliament on Monday rejected a bill that would have ended a ban on female genital mutilation, after lawmakers voted down all the clauses in the proposed law. "The ban on FGM is still firmly maintained in the Gambia," the Ministry of Inform...
June 25, 2024 5:20 PM
The spread of mpox in Africa needs to be addressed urgently, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, as scientists warned separately of the dangers of a new strain spreading in a hard-to-reach part of Democratic Republic of Congo. "There is a...
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