The two most senior executives at the World Health Organization have hit back at decisions by President Donald Trump to withdraw from the global health agency and suspend US foreign aid. Most Read fro ...

Honourable Chair, Dr Jerome Walcott, Honourable Ministers, dear colleagues and friends, Good morning, happy New Year, and welcome once again to your WHO headquarters. As you know, for me 2024 ended ...

Argentina’s president has ordered the country to pull out of the World Health Organization (WHO), following the lead of ...

Background Mpox emerged as a significant global public health concern during the 2022–2023 outbreak, impacting populations in ...

Doctors waged a vaccination campaign to wipe out smallpox which succeeded by the late 1970s. • All nations were asked to destroy stocks of the virus or hand them to high-security installations ...

Biological scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope ...

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it ...

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it infects cells. Currently, no approved treatments exist. To address this critical ...

Amid concerns about global health threats, the World Health Organization remains the most important platform for cooperation ...

2024 — An FDA-approved vaccine for smallpox and mpox is effective but causes side effects. The other requires multiple doses. An experimental single-dose vaccine uses the horsepox virus to ...

Influenza virus is an infectious agent belonging to the virus family Orthomyxoviridae that causes a respiratory tract infection (influenza or 'flu') in vertebrates. There are three main species ...