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The Israel Defense Forces detain Mohammad abu Salmiya, the director of the Al-Shifa Hospital, and several doctors working under him, after a convoy belonging to the World Health Organization was stopped by Israeli soldiers. Israel accuses the director and the doctors of having sheltered Hamas fighters in the hospital.
2023-11-23

The World Health Organization reports that the avian influenza is responsible for killing dozens of cats across 13 regions of Poland, marking the first instance of the virus affecting a large number of felines over an extensive area.
2023-07-17

The World Health Organization recommends the usage of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 5 and 11 years.
2022-01-21

The World Health Organization recommends that people who are immunocompromised or received an inactivated COVID-19 vaccine should get their COVID-19 booster dose due to reducement of vaccine effectiveness against virus variants.
2021-12-9

In a 35-page report, a commission appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to investigate sex abuses during the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo finds that there were "clear structural failures" and "individual negligence" for the sex abuse and rape of women and girls between 2018 and 2020 by WHO staff. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom apologizes for the abuses.
2021-09-28

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 health ministry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announces a "resurgence" of the Ebola virus in the country's eastern side, after it was reported that a woman there died from the disease four days prior. The announcement comes three months after the World Health Organization declared an end to the Kivu Ebola outbreak in the country's Équateur province.
2021-02-7

The World Health Organization reports six new cases of ebola, and UNICEF reports five deaths, in a renewed outbreak of the disease in Mbandaka, Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2020-06-1

Over 300 people have died of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the World Health Organization is concerned the outbreak is not being contained.
2018-12-19

For the first time since March 2014, Guinea is declared free from Ebola virus transmissions by the World Health Organization.
2015-12-29