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The World Health Organization reports that reported cases of dengue globally to a record 5.2 million in 2019, with climate change and the growing spread of virus-carrying mosquitoes being the main causes.
2023-12-22

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 says that 2,800 people have died and 11,000 have been injured in Gaza since Israeli air strikes began, with about half of those being women and children.
2023-10-17

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

A protest is organized by Fridays for Future during the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, with Swedish activist Greta Thunberg delivering a speech.
2021-11-5

Burundi expels the country's top World Health Organization representative and three other experts coordinating the COVID-19 response. The government says they are "persona non grata" and must leave Burundi. They accused them of "interfering with the government response to the pandemic".
2020-05-14

The World Health Organization reports that an outbreak of bubonic plague in Madagascar has killed 40 people.
2014-11-21

New guidelines published in the "BMJ" ("British Medical Journal") call on mothers to begin weaning their babies off breast milk before six months, contradicting World Health Organization advice from 2001.
2011-01-14