World Health Organization

According to Reuters, mortar bombs crashed down on a suburb of Tripoli on Thursday, almost hitting a clinic and adding to people’s suffering after two weeks of an offensive by eastern troops on the..

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Officials say more than 1,000 people have been reported dead in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi since the cyclone made landfall last month.

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Health officials say the number of confirmed measles cases in the U.S. made its biggest jump this year in April, in the country's second-worst outbreak in nearly two decades. Linda So reports.

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The World Health Organization says an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, does not constitute a public health emergency of international concern. Al Jazeera’s Raheela Mahomed has..

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There have been 1,206 confirmed and probable cases of the disease since the epidemic started last August, including 40 new cases in the last few days.

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Mozambique received some 900,000 cholera vaccine doses to combat a disease outbreak following last month's cyclone.

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According to CNN, cases of cholera have risen to more than 1,000 in cyclone-stricken areas of Mozambique. Authorities are scrambling to contain the spread of the highly contagious, largely waterborne..

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As of Friday, the number of cases had jumped to 139.

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A jury decided Edwin Hardeman should get $5.27 million in compensatory damages and $75 million in punitive damages.

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Health officials say at least five people have tested positive for the disease.

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Dozens of fragile patients poured into a clinic in the wrecked Mozambican port city of Beira on Wednesday, as the government said it had confirmed the first cases of cholera in the wake of deadly..

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Large crowds of people waited for treatment at medical centres in the central districts of the Mozambique city of Beira on Tuesday as government made preparations for a cholera outbreak that it says is..

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According to the country's health ministry, since the epidemic started, there have been 1,009 cases of the disease.

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The increasingly vocal anti-vaccination movement is among the top global health threats of 2019, according to the World Health Organization.

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A federal jury found Tuesday that the herbicide Roundup caused a man's non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

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The organization's director-general said the number of new cases being reported each week is down since January.

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The World Health Organization released a Global Influenza Strategy aimed at protecting people around the world from the threat of influenza.

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Female genital mutilation (FGM) is still occurring because the world is turning a blind eye to a crime against children, Waris Dirie, the Somali nomad turned supermodel, said on Thursday (March 7)...

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​Nearly 100 countries reported an uptick of measles cases in 2018 compared to 2017, with Ukraine, the Philippines and Brazil topping the list.

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Armed assailants have attacked an Ebola treatment centre in Butembo, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, setting off a fire and becoming embroiled in an extended gun battle with security forces,..

Credit: Reuters Studio     Duration: 00:40Published on March 1, 2019