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The head of the World Health Organization on Saturday visited eastern Congo’s Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola, where the virus …

The head of the World Health Organization warned on Monday that a rapidly growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda “will get worse before it gets …

The head of the World Health Organization on Tuesday expressed concern over the “scale and speed” of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola known as Bundibugyo in eastern …

An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda constitutes a “public health emergency of international concern,” the World Health Organization said in a statement Saturday. As …

The passengers and crew have disembarked from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius in Tenerife, and many have returned to their home countries, as the UN World Health Organization (WHO) …

New evidence shows that malaria vaccination is significantly reducing child deaths in Africa and could have an even greater impact as programs expand, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on …

Hantavirus victims on a ship in the Atlantic Ocean may have been infected prior to joining the cruise and human-to-human transmission on board cannot be ruled out, although it is …

A suspected outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean has killed three people, including an elderly married couple, and sickened at least three others, according to …

An outbreak of deadly hantavirus aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean has triggered an international public health response. The UN World Health Organization (WHO) is coordinating evacuations and …

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that it had given prequalification approval to a malaria treatment for newborns and infants for the first time. Artemether-lumefantrine is the first …