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The World Health Organisation warns that the Zika virus could spread to most countries in the Americas.
2016-01-25

The World Health Organisation declares an end to the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa with Liberia the last country to be declared free of the virus.
2016-01-14

The World Health Organisation appoints Dr Matshidiso Moeti of Botswana as its new Africa chief as the death toll from the virus passes 5,000.
2014-11-5

The World Health Organisation declares Senegal to be free of the Ebola virus.
2014-10-17

The official death toll from the Ebola virus outbreak reaches 3,000 with the World Health Organisation warning that the official figures "vastly underestimate the true scale of the epidemic".
2014-09-27

The World Health Organisation says that the death toll from the Ebola virus is over 2,900.
2014-09-26

The World Health Organisation estimates that an outbreak of the ebola virus has killed more than 200 people in West Africa.
2014-06-6

The World Health Organisation removes India from the list of polio endemic countries with only Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria remaining.
2012-02-25

The World Health Organisation reports that global malaria deaths have fallen by over 20% since 2001, claiming that over 30 countries are on course to eradicate the mosquito-borne disease by 2020.
2011-10-18

The World Health Organisation does not know what effects the ash could have on human beings, but they have advised Europeans to stay indoors, if possible.
2010-04-16