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Disease outbreaks
May 24, 2017
Ethiopia's Tedros to be next leader of UN health agency
Africa, where viruses such as HIV, Ebola and Zika emerged, has its first chief of the U.N. health agency. Tedros Adhanom ...
May 22, 2017
AP Exclusive: UN health agency slammed for high travel costs
Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, traveled to Guinea earlier this month to join the ...
May 22, 2017
AP Exclusive: Health agency spends more on travel than AIDS
Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, traveled to Guinea earlier this month to join the ...
May 20, 2017
3 vie for top WHO post in UN health agency election
A British physician, an Ethiopian former health minister and a Pakistani expert in non-communicable diseases are the three ...
May 18, 2017
New death in Venezuela puts toll at level of 2014 unrest
Legions of national guardsmen and military helicopters began descending on a western Venezuela state Wednesday where an ...
May 13, 2017
Congo announces 9 suspected Ebola cases, including 3 deaths
One person has been confirmed dead from Ebola in an outbreak in a remote corner of northern Congo as health authorities look ...
May 03, 2017
Italy's vaccine debate heats up as scandal, politics collide
The vaccine debate in Italy heated up across multiple fronts Wednesday, as the country dealt with an outbreak of measles, an ...
May 02, 2017
Top health officials to simulate disease outbreak response
Top health officials from the 20 leading and emerging economies are planning to simulate their response to a possible global ...
March 31, 2017
Over 200 hospitalized in Macedonian food poisoning outbreak
Macedonian health officials say 223 factory workers in an industrial zone near the western town of Gostivar were hospitalized ...
February 21, 2017
UN health agency 'vigilant' about China bird flu outbreak
The World Health Organization says an increase in bird flu cases in China this year has not shown sustained human-to-human ...
February 21, 2017
France slaughtering all ducks in key region due to bird flu
France's agriculture ministry has ordered all remaining 600,000 ducks in a key poultry-producing region slaughtered to try ...
Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo
February 08, 2017
Sparks fly as Vatican conference challenges China on organs
Participants at a Vatican conference on organ trafficking challenged China on Tuesday to allow independent scrutiny to ensure ...
December 27, 2016
Gloomy start to year of rooster as bird flu hits South Korea
The year of the rooster looks set for a gloomy start. Egg prices are soaring and new year's festivals are being canceled as ...
December 23, 2016
Final test results confirm Ebola vaccine highly effective
Final test results confirm an experimental Ebola vaccine is highly effective, a major milestone that could help prevent the ...
December 08, 2016
French foie gras producers unworried by bird flu outbreak
Despite a new outbreak of bird flu in France, foie gras producers are confident sales will remain stable during the festive ...