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The World Health Organization said it has confirmed sexual transmission of mpox in Congo for the first time as the country experiences its biggest-ever outbreak.

Preventing dengue fever has long meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites. Now, scientists are promoting a potentially more effective way to control the disease with the help of mosquitoes.

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The World Health Organization says the global outbreak of mpox is no longer an international emergency.

The World Health Organization says it has fired one of its doctors who faced allegations, first reported by The Associated Press, that he had repeatedly engaged in sexual misconduct.

Mpox is no longer the exploding health crisis that it appeared to be less than six months ago. So who deserves the credit for controlling the U.S. outbreak?

The World Health Organization is renaming monkeypox as mpox amid concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist.

Millions of children were now susceptible to measles, among the world’s most contagious diseases, according to a new report.

Thousands of people across Haiti are becoming sick with cholera as medical staff struggle to care for them despite dwindling supplies of fuel and water.

The head of the World Health Organization says the number of coronavirus deaths last week was the lowest reported number in the pandemic since March 2020, marking what could be a turning point in the years-long global outbreak.

WHO said the predominant COVID-19 variant worldwide is omicron subvariant BA.5, which accounts for more than 70% of virus sequences shared with the world’s biggest public viral database.

The World Health Organization says it’s holding an open forum to rename the disease monkeypox after some critics raised concerns the name could be derogatory or have racist connotations.

The World Health Organization has declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. The outbreak has grown to more than 16,000 reported cases from 75 countries. In Massachusetts, 30 more cases have been reported in the last week bringing the total to 79. No deaths have occurred in the United States from the disease. As of this week, Massachusetts…

The World Health Organization, WHO, on Saturday declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. The designation puts Monkeypox on the same list as other other outbreaks such as, COVID-19, Zika, H1N1 Flu, Polio, and Ebola

The World Health Organization has declared Ghana’s first outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus disease after labs confirmed the infections in two cases announced earlier this month.

About 25 million children worldwide have missed out on routine immunizations against common diseases like diphtheria, largely because the coronavirus pandemic disrupted regular health services or triggered misinformation about vaccines, according to the U.N.

The World Health Organization said the escalating monkeypox outbreak in more than 50 countries should be closely monitored but does not warrant being declared a global health emergency.

There have now been 13 confirmed cases of monkeypox in Massachusetts since it was first detected on May 18.

The World Health Organization could decide as soon as Friday whether or not to declare monkeypox a global health emergency. A public health emergency of international concern is the organization’s highest alert. This decision will come after intense scrutiny over how they first handled the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 If monkeypox is declared a global health emergency, that could escalate…

WHO is convening an emergency committee Thursday to consider if the spiraling outbreak of monkeypox warrants being declared a global emergency, a decision that comes only after the disease spilled into the West