ACCRA, Ghana -- The Ghana Health Service (GHS) declared an end of the Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak in the country Friday. "Ghana has therefore successfully interrupted the first MVD outbreak and I declare the outbreak officially over," Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the Director-General of the GHS,...
If the World Health Organization (WHO) is optimistic about the current state of the Covid-19 pandemic, then so is Malacañang. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO/KEITH BACONGCO) "If the World Health Organization is optimistic then so are we in our outlook to recovering from this pandemic," Press...
GENEVA, Switzerland — The number of newly reported COVID-19 cases has dropped dramatically, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, urging the world to seize the opportunity to end the pandemic. But the WHO said that future coronavirus waves are expected and that governments across the...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The number of newly reported Covid-19 cases has dropped dramatically, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, urging the world to seize the opportunity to end the pandemic. World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Fabrice COFFRINI /...
LOS ANGELES, United States -- The United States now joins a list of about 30 other countries with circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) identified by the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday. Photo taken on March 30,...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The World Health Organization announced Thursday that a million people had died from Covid-19 in 2022, calling it a "tragic milestone" when all the tools existed to prevent deaths. Nearly 6.45 million deaths have been reported to the WHO since the virus was first detected in...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- Monkeypox cases fell by a fifth last week as infections in Europe dropped but the outbreak is going through "intense transmission" in the Americas, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The WHO sounded the alarm for Latin America in particular, pointing to a lack of...
BALI, Indonesia -- The World Health Organization and the Group of 20 members Warned on Wednesday at a meeting in Indonesia's Bali of a potential "silent pandemic" of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) triggered by overdosage of drugs and antibiotics. This meeting is a side event of the 3rd G20 Health...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin So yet another lawmaker has filed a resolution calling on three House committees to jointly investigate the NCAP, or no-contact apprehension program. The DOTr and LTO have also called for a cease and desist, while the Supreme Court earlier granted a petition from four...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The World Health Organization said Friday that two existing treatments dramatically reduced deaths from Ebola and should be given to people of all ages suffering from the often-fatal haemorrhagic disease. Publishing its first-ever guidelines on which therapeutics to use...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Lamentillo Prior to his entry into public service as Representative of the First District of Leyte, House Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez spent a greater part of his professional life in the private sector. He held several executive positions and directorships for big...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced new names for variants of the monkeypox virus that are currently in circulation. This is to avoid causing any cultural or social offense, the WHO explained in a statement on Friday. A group of global experts convened by the...
