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    World Health Organization News

    What we know about Shamonda, the livestock virus linked to a human infection for the first time

    The World Health Organization logo at is headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
    Ht Explainers
    Published 2 days ago

    WHO unsure what caused pneumonia that killed plague-lab worker in Russia

    WHO unsure what caused pneumonia that killed plague-lab worker in Russia
    World News
    Published 14 days ago

    Diet and exercise before drugs, WHO says in its first guideline on adolescent obesity

    The WHO guidelines ask health workers to treat obesity and mental health 'early and together'.
    Ht Explainers
    Updated 17 days ago

    Russia says plague institute worker's death does not risk an epidemic

    Russia says plague institute worker's death does not risk an epidemic
    World News
    Published 17 days ago

    WHO seeks answers as Russian lab worker's death sparks plague fears

    This undated photo released in 2019 by the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, shows the institute workers in a lab.
    World News
    Updated 18 days ago

    Serum Institute’s Cervavac vaccine receives WHO prequalification

    The vaccine targets HPV types 6, 11, 16 and 18. It is indicated for girls and boys aged nine through 26 years. (REPRESENTATIVE PIC)
    Cities
    Updated 19 days ago

    WHO decries delays getting aid into Gaza

    WHO decries delays getting aid into Gaza
    World News
    Published 22 days ago

    World Heart Day: Three young survivors share their fight against heart problems

    World Heart Day is observed on September 29 annually
    Htcity
    Updated 26 days ago

    In India’s fight against TB, Bihar remains a champion

    When Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressed the Delhi End TB Summit in 2018 and made TB a personal political commitment, it signalled something that India was no longer a country defined by its TB burden, but one confidently charting its path out of it. (HT Archive)
    Opinion
    Published 29 days ago

    Sheikh Hasina's daughter resigns as WHO regional head amid fraud allegations

    Wazed had been based in New Delhi before taking up the WHO regional leadership role.
    World News
    Updated 45 days ago

    The science of H1N1, the surge in Delhi and how it differs from Covid-19

    H1N1 typically causes flu-like symptoms including fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, fatigue and a runny or blocked nose.
    Ht Explainers
    Updated 64 days ago

    Ebola outbreak in Congo set to become 2nd largest on record after 3,200 cases

    About 80% of new cases are now being detected outside known contact lists, underscoring the difficulties health workers face in tracing transmission and containing the outbreak
    World News
    Published 90 days ago

    HPV vaccination: The kryptonite for cervical cancer in India

    Earlier this year, the Government of India began rolling out HPV vaccination nationally using a single dose of Gardasil-4 vaccine to roughly 1.15 crore girls aged 14 years every year across all states and Union Territories. The vaccine is provided free of cost at designated Government health facilities. (HT Archive)
    Opinion
    Published 92 days ago

    What is Legionnaires' disease? Full list of NYC buildings linked to the outbreak

    The Guggenheim Museum is among 31 NYC buildings where Legionella bacteria was detected.
    World News
    Published 105 days ago

    Checking the spread of cancer in India

    WHO estimates for breast and childhood cancer survival show that for breast cancer, five-year survival is 87% in wealthy nations against 42% in poor ones — a difference not of tumours but of systems. This is not a knowledge problem. (Reuters)
    Editorials
    Published 107 days ago

    India cannot separate climate action from health outcomes

    Climate and Health
    Ht Insight
    Published 116 days ago

    1,000 Ebola cases confirmed with 254 deaths in Congo outbreak, say authorities

    A drone view of displaced people from the Kigonze camp attending the burial of suspected Ebola victims at Nyamurongo Cemetery, one month after an outbreak was declared, in Bunia, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, June 18, 2026.
    World News
    Updated 125 days ago

    WHO chief heads to Ebola-hit DR Congo

    WHO chief heads to Ebola-hit DR Congo
    World News
    Published 149 days ago

    Gurugram civil hospital earmarks Ebola isolation ward amid global alert

    Gurugram civil hospital earmarks Ebola isolation ward amid global alert
    Cities
    Published 150 days ago

    DGCA issues directives for airlines after Ebola declared as 'health emergency'

    Congolese medical workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) load a coffin of a patient that died of Ebola on a mobile trailer at the Rwampara General Hospital.
    India News
    Updated 152 days ago

    Government issues travel advisory, urges people to avoid Ebola-hit countries

    Countries bordering the DRC and Uganda, including South Sudan, are assessed to be at high risk of disease transmission.
    India News
    Updated 153 days ago

    Ebola toll tops 200, other African countries seen at risk

    Ebola toll tops 200, other African countries seen at risk
    World News
    Published 154 days ago

    Congo World Cup squad must isolate before entry to US: official

    Congo World Cup squad must isolate before entry to US: official
    Sports
    Published 155 days ago

    India holds high-level review amid Ebola outbreak in DR Congo; no cases reported

    All ministries and departments concerned have also been sensitised and are undertaking appropriate preventive and surveillance measures in coordination with the health ministry, they stated.
    India News
    Published 157 days ago

    WHO’s pandemic pact paralysed over pathogen sharing

    Negotiations on the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) system, the unfinished annex of the WHO Pandemic Agreement adopted in May 2025, again ended inconclusively at the 79th World Health Assembly in Geneva.
    World News
    Updated 158 days ago

    WHO chief concerned over ‘scale, speed’ of Ebola outbreak as 134 dead in Congo

    In Congo, 30 cases have been confirmed, WHO chief Tedros later told a meeting of the UN health agency’s emergency committee.
    World News
    Published 158 days ago

    WHO holds key meeting after declaring Ebola outbreak a public health emergency

    The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda has triggered panic waves due to its rare Bundibugyo strain
    World News
    Published 159 days ago

    Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks sign of our 'dangerous' times: WHO

    Health workers dressed in protective gear at an Ebola treatment center in Congo.
    World News
    Published 159 days ago

    World Health Assembly opens on Monday amid global financial constraints

    The World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement that the Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly will take place from May 18 to 23 in Geneva. (REUTERS)
    India News
    Published 161 days ago

    Canada confirms first hantavirus case after passenger from ship tests positive

    The cruise ship MV Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak, leaves the port of Granadilla de Abona, Tenerife, Spain
    World News
    Updated 161 days ago
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