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    World Health Organization News

    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 4 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 23 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 49 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 52 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 64 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 67 days ago

    India cannot separate climate action from health outcomes

    Climate and Health
    Ht Insight
    Published 75 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 84 days ago

    WHO chief heads to Ebola-hit DR Congo

    WHO chief heads to Ebola-hit DR Congo
    World News
    Published 108 days ago

    Gurugram civil hospital earmarks Ebola isolation ward amid global alert

    Gurugram civil hospital earmarks Ebola isolation ward amid global alert
    Cities
    Published 109 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 112 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 112 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 113 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 114 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 117 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 117 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 117 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 118 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 119 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 120 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 120 days ago

    ‘Hantavirus can remain in semen…’: Study raises sexual transmission concern

    Independent CONICET researcher and National University of Cordoba associate professor Raul Gonzalez Ittig holds a preserved specimen
    World News
    Published 121 days ago

    Hantavirus update: Is the cruise ship virus the next COVID? Here is the truth

    Has Hantavirus Become Airborne Like Covid?
    World News
    Published 124 days ago

    Hantavirus outbreak and the anxieties of our times

    There is little evidence to suggest widespread transmission beyond isolated settings, and WHO currently considers the global risk low. (AFP)
    Opinion
    Published 125 days ago

    British army parachutes on remote Atlantic island to help hantavirus patient

    Members of the RAF drop medical kit to the Atlantic Island of Tristan Da Cunha to provide assistance to a British National who contracted hantavirus aboard an Atlantic expedition cruise ship, MV Hondius.
    World News
    Published 127 days ago

    Hantavirus update: Countries, cases and deaths linked to MV Hondius

    Test tubes labelled "Hantavirus positive" are held in this illustration taken May 7, 2026.
    World News
    Published 129 days ago

    Hantavirus alert: Full list of countries directly or indirectly affected

    Hantavirus News Live | Port Workers Protest As Hantavirus-Hit Cruise ship Expected to Dock | Spain
    World News
    Updated 129 days ago

    Hantavirus update: Flight attendant hospitalized as 40 left ship unchecked

    Health officials worldwide are racing to trace cruise passengers after a deadly hantavirus outbreak.
    World News
    Published 129 days ago

    'We know this virus': WHO on comparisons of hantavirus to COVID-19 pandemic

    On Cam: WHO Breaks Silence On Hantavirus Outbreak, Says Low Risk But More Cases Cannot Be Ruled Out
    World News
    Updated 130 days ago

    ‘Possibility of more cases, but low public risk’: WHO on hantavirus outbreak

    Cruise Ship In Isolation After Deadly Hantavirus Scare? Passengers Speak From Quarantined Voyage
    World News
    Updated 130 days ago
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