A new warning from global health experts is raising alarms about the potential for a bird flu pandemic that could outpace the ...

GENEVA — The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered ...

The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable ...

The World Health Organization today ended its designation of Covid as a “global health emergency.” WHO director general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement, tweeted out by WHO, that it ...

(NEXSTAR) – On March 11, 2020, the director-general of the World Health Organization told the world that COVID-19 “can be characterized as a pandemic.” At the time, fewer than 4,500 people were ...

The World Health Organization on Friday said it was downgrading COVID-19 and no longer characterizing it as a global health emergency. The U.N. health agency first declared the coronavirus to be an ...

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Measles vaccination rates have improved "remarkably" but remain below pre-COVID-19 levels, the World Health Organization said ...

After a lull during the COVID-19 pandemic, pertussis (whooping cough) has made a resurgence—especially in adolescents—with ...

Officials at the World Health Organization said Monday that of about 80,000 people who have been sickened by COVID-19 in China, more than 70% have recovered and been discharged from hospitals.

GENEVA -- The World Health Organization has announced an official name of the new coronavirus that has killed more than 1,000 people and spread to two dozen other countries: COVID-19. "Under agreed ...