FThe World Health Organization has published an update on the global mpox (monkeypox) situation, highlighting the identification of a recombinant str…

The humanitarian crisis from the civil war in Sudan is also exacerbating infections including cholera, and the bacterial disease has killed more than…

On July 31, eighty-five critically ill and severely injured patients were airlifted from Gaza to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), for specializ…

Global childhood immunization coverage stalled in 2023, leaving 2.7 million additional children un- and under-vaccinated compared to pre-pandemic lev…

The World Health Organization (WHO) was notified about a case of human infection with an influenza A(H9N2) virus in Viet Nam on 9 April 2024 by the I…

Ahead of World Cancer Day, the World Health Organization (WHO)’s cancer agency, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), released the …

Due to its rapidly increasing spread, WHO is classifying the variant JN.1 as a separate variant of interest (VOI) from the parent lineage BA.2.86.  I…

Consumers, food companies, retailers and restaurants need to decide whether to fight back or find alternatives to one of the world's most common …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new guideline on non-sugar sweeteners (NSS), which recommends against the use of NSS to control bo…

The WHO Director-General has the pleasure of transmitting the Report of the fifteenth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Em…

To help countries better prepare for future pandemics, WHO launched a new initiative today that provides guidance on integrated planning for respondi…

This Disease Outbreak News is an update on the report published on 6 April 2023 concerning human infection caused by avian influenza A(H5N1) in Chile…

On 23 February 2023, the Cambodia International Health Regulations (IHR) National Focal Point (NFP) reported one confirmed case of human infection wi…

Chinese state media played down the severity of a surge of COVID infections in the country, while the World Health Organization urged Beijing to shar…

A week after China began dismantling its tough 'zero-COVID' controls, the World Health Organization warned of 'very tough' times ahea…

The first doses of one of three candidate vaccines against Sudan ebolavirus arrived in Uganda yesterday. These will be evaluated in a clinical trial …

Following a series of consultations with global experts, WHO will begin using a new preferred term “mpox” as a synonym for monkeypox. Both names will…

WHO is launching a global scientific process to update the list of priority pathogens—agents that can cause outbreaks or pandemics—to guide global in…

World Health Organization (WHO) has supported the Minister of Public Health of Lebanon to secure a critical shipment of 600 000 doses of cholera vacc…

In a 2019 vector alert, WHO identified the spread of Anopheles stephensi as a significant threat to malaria control and elimination – particularly in…