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Burundi is among the regions where children are bearing the brunt of the mpox outbreak with alarming rates of infection and health impacts. Significant concerns have recently arisen due to the mpox spread, displaying increased ...
The Marburg virus is highly virulent and causes a hemorrhagic fever with a mortality rate of up to 88%. It belongs to the same family as the virus that causes Ebola disease. The virus is ...
Severe floods and landslides, as well as long-running conflicts in other parts of the country, have worsened needs and some 25 million people are currently in need of humanitarian assistance, according to the WHO. Children ...
After thirteen months of war in Sudan, half of the population of this northeast African country needs humanitarian aid, or 25 million people. The fighting in Sudan has had a terrible impact on millions of ...
As of 2021, almost 17 million people in South Sudan have received treatment for elephantiasis, trachoma, river blindness, bilharzia, and soil-transmitted worms. South Sudan, with the support of WHO and partners, has worked in recent ...
Director of the WHO regional office in Europe, Dr Hans Kluge at a press conference on the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted one million deaths in the European region. France is expected to officially exceed the 100,000 ...
For the Director General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, « Climate change is one of the major problems of our time. It is also one of the most urgent health threats in ...
WHO today issued its first-ever guidance for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B, a viral infection which is spread through blood and body fluids, attacking the liver and resulting in an estimated 650 000 deaths ...
A new WHO guideline recommends adults and children reduce their daily intake of free sugars to less than 10% of their total energy intake. A further reduction to below 5% or roughly 25 grams (6 ...
The World Health Organization on Thursday urged countries to invest billions of dollars to tackle 17 neglected tropical diseases — including dengue fever, leprosy and sleeping sickness — which kill 500,000 people globally each year. ...
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