World Health Organization

Health authorities are calling attention to a looming consequence of the Trump administration’s gutting of the U.S. Agency for International Development: the risk of a global surge in tuberculosis cases and deaths.

An unknown illness has killed more 50 people in northwestern Congo, according to doctors on the ground and the World Health Organization on Monday.

A spokesman says President Javier Milei has ordered Argentina’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization due to “profound differences” with the U.N. agency.

U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.

Around 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan. That’s according to the chief of the World Health Organization. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus offered the figure in a X post early Sunday. Officials and others in the capital of North Darfur province had cited a similar...

The World Health Organization says more than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year. That’s the highest number recorded since the U.N. health agency began keeping track.

Rwanda says that eight people have died so far from the highly contagious Marburg virus.

This strain of the virus is known to be more severe, but it’s behaving differently from its usual patterns.

The World Health Organization has declared the increasing spread of mpox in Africa a global health emergency, warning the virus might ultimately spill across international borders.

The World Health Organization declared a public health emergency of international concern over a spreading outbreak of mpox first seen in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Cases are confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen countries, and a new form of the virus is spreading. Few vaccine doses are available on the African continent.

The regional office of the World Health Organization say that’s three times more cases than reported at this point last year.

The World Health Organization said it has confirmed sexual transmission of mpox in Congo for the first time as the country experiences its biggest-ever outbreak.