As "superbugs" continue to surge, the World Health Organization is now warning that one in every six bacterial infections are resistant to antibiotics. WHO also called for antibiotic medications to be ...

An Ebola outbreak declared in the DR Congo in early September has caused 42 deaths out of 64 confirmed cases but the risk of it spreading in the region is moderate, the WHO said Wednesday. Health ...

GENEVA, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Thursday said 48 cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo and 31 people have died. "It has been two weeks ...

Mpox is no longer a global health emergency, but more needs to be done to eradicate the sometimes deadly virus that causes unsightly, painful rashes, the World Health Organization said. WHO ...

Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.45. The mpox outbreak in several African nations has slowed and countries ...

In August 2024, the news came in quick succession. On Tuesday — Aug. 13, 2024 — Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared mpox a public health emergency of continental concern. The ...

Vaccination campaigns are widely considered to be a public health success story. Since Edward Jenner pioneered the smallpox vaccine in the 1700s, they’ve significantly reduced disease rates around the ...

Amidst a deepening public health crisis, Angolan President and current African Union Chairperson, João Lourenço, has called on June 4 for urgent action to establish Africa-based vaccine production, ...

Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand. After three years of negotiations, delegates to the World Health Organization’s annual meeting have adopted a global pandemic ...

This past Monday, President Trump signed an executive order banning “dangerous gain-of-function biological research in the United States and around the world.” With this directive, Trump added muscle ...

Five years ago today, Americans began seeing how a virus that had been detected in Wuhan, China, was about to reshape everyday life. On March 11, 2020, the director-general of the World Health ...