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World Health Organization director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

World Health Organization let China lie, cheat on COVID-19

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A police officer stands guard as a health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Pakistan begins last anti-polio vaccination campaign of the year after a surge in cases

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A view of the general Hospital Panzi in southwestern Congo, Thursday, Nov 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Lucien Lufutu)

Authorities say the mystery disease in Congo might be malaria but more testing is needed

By Jean-Yves Kamale - Associated Press

FILE - A health worker attends to a mpox patient, at a treatment centre in Munigi, eastern Congo, Aug. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, file )

WHO says mpox cases in Congo’s epicenter where the new variant was detected may be ‘plateauing’

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A health worker attends to a mpox patient, at a treatment centre in Munigi, eastern Congo, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

Congo begins mpox vaccinations in a drive to slow outbreaks

By Ruth Alonga - Associated Press

Runners compete in the parkrun event in Bushy Park, southwest London, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Feel-good parkruns have raced past their humble beginnings and now draw millions for fitness and fun

By Brian Melley - Associated Press

A health worker attends to an mpox patient, at a treatment center in Munigi, eastern Congo, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

WHO grants first mpox vaccine approval to ramp up response to disease in Africa and beyond

Associated Press

A sign is posted at a CVS pharmacy indicating a shortage in the availability of baby food Tuesday, May 10, 2022, in Charlotte, N.C. Parents in much of the U.S. are scrambling to find baby formula after a combination of supply disruptions and safety recalls have swept many of the leading brands from store shelves. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Nearly 60% of U.S. baby food does not meet World Health Organization standards

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Sarah Bagheni, in the Bulengo refugee camp in Goma, Congo, suspects she may be infected with Mpox after the World Health Organization had declared Thursday, Aug, 15, 2024, the increasing spread of mpox in Africa a global health emergency, warning the virus might ultimately spill across international borders. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Mpox spirals again into a global health emergency due to Congo’s humanitarian crisis

Associated Press

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip, walk through a dark streak of sewage flowing into the streets of the southern town of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on July 4, 2024. Health authorities and aid agencies are racing to avert an outbreak of polio in the Gaza Strip after the virus was detected in the territory's wastewater and three cases with a suspected polio symptom have been reported. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)

Aid groups in Gaza try to avert a polio outbreak with a surge of vaccinations

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Family nurse practitioner Carol Ramsubhag-Carela prepares a syringe with the Mpox vaccine before inoculating a patient at a vaccination site on, Aug. 30, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)

Mpox has been declared a public health emergency in Africa. What is it and what’s the WHO doing?

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. The hunt for COVID-19 origins has gone dark in China. An AP investigation drawing on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents and dozens of interviews found feuding officials and fear of blame ended meaningful Chinese and international efforts to trace the virus almost as soon as they began, despite years of public statements to the contrary. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

By Dake Kang and Maria Cheng - Associated Press

A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. The hunt for COVID-19 origins has gone dark in China. An AP investigation drawing on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents and dozens of interviews found feuding officials and fear of blame ended meaningful Chinese and international efforts to trace the virus almost as soon as they began, despite years of public statements to the contrary. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Toxic: China clamps down on politically charged COVID origin research

By Dave Kang and Maria Cheng - Associated Press

FILE - Vials of single doses of the Jynneos vaccine for monkeypox are seen from a cooler at a vaccinations site on Aug. 29, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The Republic of Congo has recorded its first cases of mpox in several regions, the health ministry said, an indication of how the disease may be spreading across Africa since sexual transmission was first confirmed on the continent last year. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)

Republic of Congo reports its first mpox virus cases, in several regions

By Louis Patrick Okamba - Associated Press

This Tuesday, April 3, 2018, file photo shows a closeup of a beam scale in New York. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

Obesity overtakes hunger as biggest threat to world health: WHO

By Staff - The Washington Times