Tag: World Health Organization

Why the WHO chief has attracted the Ethiopian government’s fury

Samson Mulugeta · July 14, 2022 12:00 am

Fifty-eight percent of the cities surveyed reported an increase in the total number of homeless persons. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Global hunger swelled by 150 million people since 2019: UN

Jack Birle · July 7, 2022 2:38 pm

NYC and DC run out of monkeypox vaccines

Misty Severi · June 28, 2022 1:43 am

WHO panel: Monkeypox not a global emergency ‘at this stage’

Associated Press · June 25, 2022 12:00 am

FILE - The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a media conference at an EU Africa summit in Brussels on Feb. 18, 2022. Ghebreyesus said on June 22, 2022 that WHO is working with the United Kingdom on the response to the recent find of poliovirus in London sewage. (Johanna Geron, Pool Photo via AP, File)

Poliovirus detected in sewage from north and east London

Asher Notheis · June 22, 2022 5:23 pm

Monkeypox, a member of the orthopox family of viruses, is an infection accidentally transmitted to humans due to its similarity to the smallpox virus.

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The absurdity of claiming ‘monkeypox’ is racist

Christopher Tremoglie · June 17, 2022 7:29 pm

WHO to rename monkeypox virus to avoid racist stigma

Cami Mondeaux · June 15, 2022 12:00 am

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during the opening of the World Health Organization Academy in Lyon, France, on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021.

World Health Organization to consider whether monkeypox is next pandemic

Christopher Hutton · June 14, 2022 3:55 pm

WHO report sparks renewed clash with China over COVID-19 origins

Cassidy Morrison, Jerry Dunleavy · June 12, 2022 12:00 am

WHO expert group says lab leak theory needs more study

Asher Notheis · June 9, 2022 12:00 am

The 2015 Paris Agreement is a global pact to combat climate change under which all of the nations of the world voluntarily set their own nonbinding targets for reducing carbon emissions.

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‘Climate anxiety’ is a result of media-driven fear, not government inaction

Katelynn Richardson · June 8, 2022 8:40 pm

House Republican introduces bill to withdraw US from United Nations and WHO

Cami Mondeaux · June 6, 2022 12:00 am