‘Unknown disease’ that can kill within days leaves 53 dead in Congo
World Health Organization officials said the outbreak appeared to originate from a village where three children died after ...
Unknown Deadly Illness Strikes Western Congo
The outbreak has been traced, tentatively, to three children who ate a bat, the W.H.O. said, and known threats like Ebola and ...
WHO worries about West Bank violence, impact on healthcare
The World Health Organization is deeply concerned about violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the impact of what it ...
USAID’s apparent demise and the US withdrawal from WHO put millions of lives worldwide at risk and imperil US national security
These efforts have brought immense financial as well as health benefits to the U.S. and the rest of the world. Some economists estimate that the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, created in 1988, ...
UN food agency pauses aid to famine-hit Sudan displacement camp of half a million people
The United Nations’ food agency says it has paused aid distribution in Sudan’s famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp of a ...
Two clusters of unknown illness kill over 50 in Democratic Republic of Congo
More than 50 people have died in two clusters of illness cases with unknown cause in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo, the WHO said on Tuesday.
Mystery illness has killed more than 50 people in Congo
Health experts say an unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people ...
Security conditions in a famine-hit camp in Sudan are ‘unbearable,’ an aid group says
An international aid worker says all roads around Sudan’s famine-stricken Zamzam camp in North Darfur are blocked and the ...