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Three passengers infected with hantavirus pulmonary syndrome from the Andes virus are evacuated off the MV cruise ship while it is stationed off the coast of Cape Verde to receive treatment in the Netherlands. At least 145 people remain on board, including two suspected asymptomatic cases.
2026-05-6

Three people are killed in a hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV "Hondius" off the coast of West Africa.
2026-05-3

California Governor Gavin Newsom announces that California will join the World Health Organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, becoming the first U.S. state to do so. The move comes after the United States' formal withdrawal from the World Health Organization took effect.
2026-01-23

The United States's withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) takes effect, becoming the first member state to leave the WHO.
2026-01-22

The World Health Organization deploys a team of technical officers and aid to monitor and support an outbreak of viral hemorrhagic fever that has killed six people in southern Ethiopia.
2025-11-14

Canada's Supreme Court rejects an appeal by Universal Ostrich Farm, allowing the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to carry out a full cull of nearly 400 ostriches in Edgewood, British Columbia, under bird flu containment rules aligned with WHO guidelines.
2025-11-6

The World Health Organization begins Ebola vaccinations for exposed individuals and health workers in Kasaï Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2025-09-14

World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declares that mpox is no longer a public health emergency of international concern, citing a consistent decline in cases in Africa.
2025-09-5

Argentina announces that it will withdraw from the World Health Organization citing "deep differences" with the organization's leaders.
2025-02-5

The World Health Organization reports a suspected Marburg virus outbreak in Kagera, Tanzania, with nine cases and eight deaths.
2025-01-14