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The World Health Organization declares Egypt to be malaria-free.
2024-10-21

The World Health Organization classifies the EG.5 variant of COVID-19 as a variant of interest. The variant has been spreading rapidly in the United States.
2023-08-9

The WHO and UNICEF launch a four-day polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan backed by the Taliban, which aims to address the 3.3 million children who have not been vaccinated against polio since 2018.
2021-11-8

China is declared malaria-free by the WHO, following an eradication effort that began in 1950.
2021-06-30

The University of Oxford announces a major breakthrough in the vaccination campaign against malaria. The R21-Matrix-M vaccine has been administered to over 450 children in Burkina Faso and proved to have a "high-level efficacy" of around 77%. Malaria currently kills an estimated 400,000 people per year, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa.
2021-04-23

The World Health Organization asks six African countries (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, and Liberia) to be on the alert for possible Ebola outbreaks after Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo reported new cases that signaled a resurgence of the outbreak.
2021-02-16

The World Health Organization says China reporting zero domestic cases of COVID-19 for two days in a row should "give the world hope."
2020-03-20

The World Health Organization declares an end to its global health crisis over the spread of the Zika virus as it has been shown to be a dangerous mosquito-borne disease like malaria or yellow fever.
2016-11-18

The World Health Organization reports tuberculosis has surpassed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), as the leading cause of global death, despite the death rate from tuberculosis having been cut in half over the last 25 years. Most deaths from tuberculosis could be prevented, researchers said, but detection and treatment aren't happening fast enough.
2015-10-28

The World Health Organization declares that the outbreak of the Ebola virus has ceased in Liberia after weeks of no cases there.
2015-05-9