Raccoon dogs, like one shown here, were known to be traded at the market in Wuhan, China.
A new analysis of genetic material collected at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China -- shown here in 2020 -- uncovered animal DNA in sam…
There's a tantalizing new clue in the hunt for the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.
The World Health Organization will convene an emergency committee meeting to assess whether the monkeypox outbreak is a public health emergenc…
The World Health Organization, in a new special report, is calling for governments and policymakers to "act with urgency" on the climate and h…
GENEVA (AP) � Germany and France say they and other European Union countries have nominated Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of Ethiopia for a second term as director-general of the World Health Organization. The announcement was made Friday and it marks the first time that a candidate for the top job at the U.N. health agency has
GENEVA (AP) � The World Health Organization and its partners hope to provide Africa with about 30% of the COVID-19 vaccines the continent needs by February. That will badly miss the 60% vaccination coverage goal that African leaders had once hoped for this year. At a press briefing on Tuesday, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) � The head of the World Health Organization has called for a two-month moratorium on administering booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines as a means of reducing global vaccine inequality and preventing the emergence of new coronavirus variants. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Hungary’s capital Monday that he was “really
It’s officially been one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic.