Member states of the World Health Organization voted overwhelmingly to adopt the first ever pandemic agreement, a treaty aimed at preventing, preparing for and responding to any future pandemic. After ...

Africa’s top public health agency said Thursday that suspected Ebola cases in Congo’s southern Kasai province have more than ...

When President Trump issued an executive order withdrawing from the World Health Organization on his first day in office, he pledged to “identify credible and transparent United States and ...

Sir David Nunes Nabarro, a physician, international public health advocate and one of the early experts helping with the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, died on Friday at age 75. "David was ...

GENEVA — Members of the World Health Organization adopted a landmark agreement on Tuesday on how to prepare for future pandemics following the C ovid-19 outbreak, which killed millions of people from ...

The World Health Organization issued an urgent call for action on Tuesday to prevent a repeat of an epidemic of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus that swept the globe two decades ago, as new ...

Officials with the World Health Organization are alerting the public to a potential revival of epidemic proportions. New reports show the chikungunya virus is spreading outside of its typical ...

When COVID-19 swept the globe in 2020, the shock exposed not only a viral threat but the fragility of systems — from supply chains and food security to governance and global finance. For Andrea ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has traveled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children to be vaccinated against polio as part of a global ...