S.Korea MERS virus outbreak "large and complex": WHOSouth Korea's outbreak of the deadly MERS virus is "large and complex" and more cases should be expected, a team of World Health Organization (WHO) experts said.
WHO names Ebola response chiefThe World Health Organization said it had appointed its assistant director-general Bruce Aylward to head its overall response to the deadly Ebola outbreak.
04 February 2015
WHO pledges reforms as it admits Ebola mistakesThe World Health Organization's chief admitted the UN agency had been caught napping on Ebola and pledged reforms to avoid similar mistakes in future.
26 January 2015
WHO makes cervical cancer protection easier, cheaperThe WHO introduced new cervical cancer guidelines, making it easier and cheaper to protect women against one of the deadliest, but most preventable, diseases.
South Africa to host 2016 AIDS conferenceSouth Africa's port city of Durban will host the 21st International AIDS Conference in 2016, marking the forum's return to Africa after 16 years, organisers said.
WHO urges all gay men to use preventive drugsThe World Health Organization urged all men who have gay sex to take antiretroviral drugs, warning that HIV infections are rising among homosexual men in many parts of the world.
12 July 2014
Vials of smallpox discovered in US govt storage roomFederal investigators are probing how vials of smallpox made their way into a storage room at a Food and Drug Administration lab near the US capital, health authorities said.
Ex-Norwegian PM Brundtland awarded Asian 'Nobel Prize'Former Norwegian premier Gro Harlem Brundtland was named Wednesday as the first recipient of the Tang Prize, touted as Asia's version of the Nobels, for her work as the "godmother" of sustainable development.
18 June 2014
World No Tobacco Day: WHO urged not to snuff out e-cigThe e-cigarette was pushed centre stage ahead of World No Tobacco Day, with doctors and policy experts urging the UN's health agency to embrace the gadget as a life saver.
30 May 2014
13 new MERS deaths in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia has announced 13 more deaths from the MERS coronavirus, as the World Health Organisation prepared for an emergency meeting over worries about the spread of the disease.
11 May 2014
Unusual new penguin flu found in AntarcticaA new kind of bird flu has been detected for the first time in Adelie penguins in Antarctica, though the virus does not seem to make them sick, researchers said.
07 May 2014
Pakistan to set up polio vaccination points at airportsPakistan will set up mandatory polio immunisation points at its international airports in response to recommendations by the World Health Organisation, the health ministry said.
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