Tag: World Health Organization

At least 23,000 people die from superbugs each year and at least 2 million people get infected with bacteria resistant to antibiotics, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Janice Carr/CDC via AP)

World Health Organization just put out the scariest list ever

Robert King · February 27, 2017 5:19 pm

In the U.S., 4,592 travel-associated cases were found as well as 200 locally transmitted cases. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Half million suspected Zika cases found in 2016

Robert King · December 30, 2016 4:05 pm

Political opposition to HIV testing became the incubator for AIDS to grow. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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Demolish AIDS with home HIV tests

Elliott Millenson · December 3, 2016 5:02 am

The World Health Organization declared Friday that the Zika virus is no longer a public health emergency. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

WHO says Zika no longer a public health emergency

Robert King · November 18, 2016 7:35 pm

The U.S is the top financier of WHO, spending about $400 million annually, but it is not a party to the convention. (AP Photo)

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Taxpayer-funded UN anti-tobacco convention closes out the press

Kevin Mooney · November 1, 2016 3:17 pm

A 22-year-old effort for mass vaccination against measles, mumps and rubella has worked, health agency says. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

US free of measles, WHO says

Robert King · September 27, 2016 4:45 pm

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the goal of the meeting is to get commitments from countries and other important stakeholders. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

UN leader: Superbugs a dire threat

Robert King · September 21, 2016 2:59 pm

The World Health Organization is struggling to get countries to wipe out illegal trade in tobacco products. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

World ignores WHO’s treaty on illegal tobacco trade

Pete Kasperowicz · August 26, 2016 4:01 am

No one got Zika at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, despite major concerns from experts. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

WHO reports no Zika cases from the Olympics so far

Robert King · August 25, 2016 7:26 pm

Group will conduct polio immunizations targeting several million children in Africa starting next week. (AP Photo/ Sunday Alamba, File)

WHO ramps up vaccine distribution to end polio outbreak

Robert King · August 12, 2016 9:52 pm

The World Health Organization has been considering whether to declassify transgender identity as being a mental illness when it releases its updated list of global health conditions. (Christophe Bosset/ Bloomberg News)

World Health Organization considers declassifying transgender as illness

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 27, 2016 3:38 pm

The measure would require manufacturers to label food if it has any genetically modified organisms in its ingredients, but will give manufacturers some flexibility. (AP Photo)

House passes GMO labeling bill

Robert King · July 14, 2016 4:59 pm