Tag: World Health Organization

Medical workers wearing personal protective equipment wheel bodies to a refrigerated trailer serving as a makeshift morgue at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Monday, April 6, 2020, in New York. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.

‘We must decide what needs to be done’: World Health Organization plans Thursday decision on coronavirus emergency declaration

Kimberly Leonard · January 29, 2020 5:40 pm

A woman wears a mask as an employee works to prevent a new coronavirus at Suseo Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. China broadened its unprecedented, open-ended lockdowns to encompass around 25 million people Friday to try to contain a deadly new virus that has sickened hundreds, though the measures' potential for success is uncertain.

China agrees to let international experts into country to help with coronavirus outbreak

Zach Halaschak · January 28, 2020 10:56 pm

A woman wears a mask as an employee works to prevent a new coronavirus at Suseo Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. China broadened its unprecedented, open-ended lockdowns to encompass around 25 million people Friday to try to contain a deadly new virus that has sickened hundreds, though the measures' potential for success is uncertain.

‘For their own good’: Amid allegations of coronavirus cover-up, China tells foreign journalists to avoid Wuhan

Joel Gehrke · January 23, 2020 8:45 pm

Health Officials in hazmat suits check body temperatures of passengers arriving from the city of Wuhan Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020, at the airport in Beijing, China.

World Health Organization: Too early to declare coronavirus outbreak in China a public health emergency

Cassidy Morrison · January 23, 2020 6:50 pm

In this Saturday, July 13, 2019 photo, health workers wearing protective gear check on a patient isolated in a plastic cube at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo. On July 17, the World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak an international emergency after it spread to eastern Congo's biggest city, Goma.

One year later, Ebola outbreak isn’t slowing down

Kimberly Leonard · August 1, 2019 8:21 pm

In this Tuesday, July 16, 2019 photo, health workers dressed in protective gear begin their shift at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo DRC.

Ebola outbreak in the Congo declared a health emergency of ‘international concern’

Regina Barton · July 18, 2019 5:41 pm

In this Aug. 17, 2018 photo, family and friends who have lost loved ones to OxyContin and opioid overdoses leave pill bottles in protest outside the headquarters of Purdue Pharma, which is owned by the Sackler family, in Stamford, Conn. The Sackler familyâs ties to OxyContin and the painkillerâs role in the deadly opioid crisis are bringing the Sacklers a new kind of attention and complicating their philanthropic legacy.

World Health Organization removes guidelines downplaying opioid addiction risk after criticism from US legislators

Grayce McCormick · June 20, 2019 9:21 pm

FILE - In this undated colorized transmission electron micrograph file image made available by the CDC shows an Ebola virus virion. Health authorities are investigating nine suspected cases of Ebola in a remote corner of northern Congo, including two deaths, the country's health minister said Friday May 12, 2017.

Two more cases of Ebola confirmed in Uganda as outbreak spreads

Regina Barton · June 12, 2019 5:45 pm

This Tuesday, April, 16, 2019 photo taken in Congo shows an Ebola health worker at a treatment center in Beni, Eastern Congo. Uganda's health ministry said late Tuesday, June 11, 2019 that a 5-year-old Congolese boy who crossed into Uganda has tested positive for Ebola in what is the first cross-border case of the deadly virus since an outbreak started in neighboring Congo last year.

WHO confirms first Ebola case in Uganda

Regina Barton · June 11, 2019 8:06 pm

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Madeline Fry Schultz · May 31, 2019 12:00 am

Eric and Evas Nelson, from Sandwich, Mass., and parents of a transgender child, wait for Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to arrive to raise a flag supporting the transgender community at City Hall, Thursday, March 30, 2017, in Boston. The flag-raising event was organized after the "Free Speech Bus," painted with the words "boys are boys" and "girls are girls," parked outside City Hall earlier in the day.

World Health Organization: Being transgender is not a ‘mental disorder’

Diana Stancy Correll · May 28, 2019 9:26 pm

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, announced on Tuesday that Alex Azar (pictured above), President Trump's nominee to become Secretary of Health and Human Services, will be part of a hearing next week.

HHS Secretary Alex Azar blames ‘complacency’ for falling vaccination rates

Cassidy Morrison · May 21, 2019 4:44 pm