After waiting an extra month to decide on the H3N2 strain, World Health Organization (WHO) vaccine advisors finalized their recommendations on strains to include in the Northern Hemisphere 2019-20 flu vaccines. Their...
Three years after the start of the world’s worst Ebola epidemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has created a programme to improve its response to disease outbreaks and to prevent another such calamity. In June...
Four months have passed without a single case of yellow fever related to the outbreak in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, thanks to the joint response activities of national health authorities, local...
Having secured the funds for the initial phase of the deployment of the world’s first malaria vaccine, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced it will be rolled out in sub-Saharan Africa and immunization campaigns...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, is increasingly focused on health concerns outside the United States as the world becomes more interconnected. And its international mission goes well...
World Health Organization (WHO) vaccine advisors today recommended changing only the 2009 H1N1 component for the Southern Hemisphere’s 2017 flu vaccine, the first change in the H1N1 component since the former...
Yellow fever still stubbornly persists in Angola’s main hot spot, despite a major influx of vaccine, with the outbreak spreading to new areas, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, as news emerged that WHO...
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan, MD, agreed with health officials during an emergency committee meeting on May 19 that an outbreak of yellow fever that began in Angola is of great concern and warrants national and...
The world will face a “severe public health crisis” if the Zika virus spreads beyond Latin America, the World Health Organization’s director general has said. Margaret Chan told a press conference that no one can...
After a three-day consultation on Zika research and development, international experts, convened by WHO, have agreed on top priorities to advance R&D for Zika medical products. The following tools were prioritized...