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The World Health Organization reports the first death from H3N8 in a 56-year-old woman in Guangdong Province, China, who died March 16. The virus has been circulating since 2002, when it first appeared in North American waterfowl.
2023-04-11

China rejects the next stage of a World Health Organization (WHO) investigation into COVID-19. Chinese Deputy Minister of Health Zeng Yixin rebuffed the proposal to investigate the origins in Wuhan as "disrespect for common sense and arrogance towards Science". WHO experts said it was very unlikely that the virus escaped from a Chinese lab, but the theory has endured.
2021-07-22

China announces that a World Health Organization team investigating the origins of COVID-19 will arrive in the country on Thursday.
2021-01-11

The number of confirmed cases worldwide increased over 350,000, sets a new record since the beginning of the outbreak in China, according to World Health Organization.
2020-10-9

U.S. President Donald Trump says he is terminating the country's relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO) over its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming the WHO has become a "puppet of China" and that American funding will be redirected to "other global public health needs".
2020-05-29

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

China's paramount leader Xi Jinping tells the World Health Organization he is confident about defeating the "devil virus".
2020-01-28

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

Chinese state news agency Xinhua joins critics of Shenyang's handling of serious pollution problems. "The city of Shenyang has failed to apply emergency measures that could have reduced smog, and didn't provide advisories to residents to stay indoors," Xinhua wrote. The BBC reported pollution readings in the northeastern Chinese city have been 50 times higher than levels considered safe by the World Health Organization (WHO).
2015-11-10

The World Health Organization launches a plan to prevent the global spread of an artemisinin-resistant malaria.
2011-01-12