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Cough syrup can harm children: experts warn of contamination risks

The recent deaths of over 300 children in Africa and Asia have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to warn about the use of “substandard and falsified” medical products. The organisation called for more efforts to protect children from contaminated medicine. Toxicologists Winston Morgan and Shazma Bashir unpack the story.

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'An absurdity': Experts slam WHO's excusal of misconduct

Two experts appointed by the World Health Organization to investigate allegations that some of its staffers sexually abused women during an Ebola outbreak in Congo have dismissed the U_N_ agency’s own efforts to excuse its handling of such misconduct as “an absurdity.”

The Independent UK

Big Ag's glyphosate conspiracy

Dr. Chadi Nabhan spent years treating patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma before knowing potential link to Roundup

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Bird flu situation 'worrying'; WHO working with Cambodia

The World Health Organization is working with Cambodian authorities after two confirmed human cases of H5N1 bird flu were found among one family in the country.

Reuters

A woman dies needlessly every 2 minutes due to pregnancy or childbirth, according to a new UN report. Here's why

Maternal mortality increased in Europe and Northern American from 2016 through 2020, by 17% and 15%, respectively, according to the report.

Fortune

Bird flu has reportedly killed a Cambodian girl and sickened others. What you need to know about H5N1

The mortality rate currently sits between 50% and 60%, according to the WHO and other sources.

Fortune

The number of mothers who die due to pregnancy or childbirth is 'unacceptable'

That's what epidemiologist Jenny Cresswell of the World Health Organization said of death rate data in a new report she authored — "equivalent to almost 800 deaths a day or a death every 2 minutes."

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WHO ‘Moving Rapidly’ with Syria Quake Relief as Sanctions Are Paused

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it was taking advantage of a temporary easing of sanctions against Syria designed to allow humanitarian aid to be more easily distributed in the war-torn country after deadly earthquakes. "WHO is moving very rapidly right now together with our partners to take advantage…

Asharq Al-Awsat

WHO 'moving rapidly' with Syria quake relief as sanctions are paused

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Over 90% of Rwandans have health insurance – the health minister tells an expert what went right

In 2015 the United Nations General Assembly adopted universal health coverage as one of the sustainable development goals. The aim of universal health coverage is to ensure that every person and community, irrespective of their circumstances, has access to the health services they need, at the time and place they…

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Bird flu risk to people is low despite recent animal infections. But what would it take to cross over to humans?

Right now, the average person has very little risk of contracting bird flu, but whether that could change at some point depends on whether two viruses meet in the wrong animal.

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How the brain makes its own toad venom

A new study challenges serotonin's role in depression, while partly explaining why our bodies make drugs like DMT

Salon

Develop vaccines for all animal influenza strain, says incoming WHO chief scientist

Governments should invest in vaccines for all strains of influenza virus that exist in the animal kingdom as an insurance policy in case of an outbreak in humans, the incoming chief scientist at the World Health Organization said on Monday.

Reuters

Aid groups help Turkey-Syria quake survivors amid global crises and donor fatigue

Appeals for aid to Syria were falling short even before this month. Aid groups are trying to marshal more aid pledges while attention is still on the quakes, but the road to recovery will be long.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

World Health Organization Calls for More Funding to Aid War-Torn Ukraine

The World Health Organization on Friday appealed for more funds to support Ukraine's health sector, which has been severely damaged by the Russian invasion. WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge said the country now needed more funds to ensure that mental health services and rehabilitation could be dispensed, while…

Reuters

World Health Organization calls for more funding to aid war-torn Ukraine

The World Health Organization on Friday appealed for more funds to support Ukraine's health sector, which has been severely damaged by the Russian invasion.

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Will bird flu spark the next pandemic?

It is rising fast as a contender amid dramatic outbreaks among mammals, and could be far deadlier than COVID-19.

Reuters

WHO maintains public health emergency alert for mpox

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday said mpox remained a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), its highest level of alert, citing continued transmission in some countries.

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Northwest Syria of ‘Greatest Concern’ after Quake, Says WHO

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it was particularly concerned over the welfare of people in northwestern Syria, a opposition-held region with little access to aid, since the earthquakes struck last week. "It's clear that the zone of greatest concern at the moment is the area of northwestern Syria,"…

Reuters

Northwest Syria of 'greatest concern' after quake -WHO

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it was particularly concerned over the welfare of people in northwestern Syria, a rebel-held region with little access to aid, since the earthquakes struck last week.

Fortune

It's not just 'The Last of Us.' Fungal infections really are a 'major threat' to public health, the WHO says

Fungal infections are the World Health Organization's newest frontier, killing 2 million people every year.

Reuters

Cameroon detects two suspected cases of Marburg virus near Eq. Guinea

Cameroonian authorities detected two suspected cases of Marburg disease on Monday in Olamze, a commune on the border with Equatorial Guinea, the public health delegate for the region, Robert Mathurin Bidjang, said on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Watch: WHO holds briefing on Turkey earthquake response as death toll continues to rise

Watch as the World Health Organization provide an update on the urgent health needs and response in Turkey, following last week’s devastating earthquakes.

The Independent UK

WHO says Equatorial Guinea confirms 1st outbreak of Marburg

The World Health Organization says Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg disease, saying the Ebola-related virus is responsible for at least nine deaths in the tiny Western African country

Reuters

Equatorial Guinea confirms country's first Marburg virus disease outbreak -WHO

Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first outbreak of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious and deadly disease similar to Ebola, following the deaths of at least nine people, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

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