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In this Wednesday, April 5, 2017, file photo, some of thousands of people walk for hours to reach a food distribution site in Malualkuel, in the Northern Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan. The new American director of the World Food Program, David Beasley, called the suffering in South Sudan's famine "deplorable" as he visited the country Tuesday, May 23, 2017, and called on the government to allow aid groups safe access. (AP Photo, File)

South Sudan: 15 children dead from contaminated measles vaccine

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

In this April 21, 2015, file photo, a man smokes a cigarette in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) **FILE**

Tobacco negatively effects all aspects of the environment: Study

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2016, file photo, an Aedes aegypti mosquito known to carry the Zika virus, is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. India has reported three cases of the Zika virus for the first time, including two pregnant women who delivered healthy babies. The World Health Organization said in a statement released Friday that the three cases that India reported to the WHO on May 15 were detected through routine blood surveillance in a hospital in Ahmadabad, Gujarat's capital. Two cases were detected in February and November last year, while a third case was detected in January this year. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

India reports its first 3 cases of the Zika virus

By NIRMALA GEORGE - Associated Press

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, newly elected director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), answers questions of the journalists at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 24, 2017. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

New WHO chief: Planned US funding cuts not a ‘closed issue’

By JAMEY KEATEN and MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, from Ethiopia, candidate to the position of Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), leaves after delivering a 15-minute speech during the 70th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, May 23, 2017. (Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP)

Ethiopia’s Tedros to be next leader of UN health agency

By JAMEY KEATEN and MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

China's Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization, WHO, addresses her statement, during the 70th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 22, 2017. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

The Latest: Ethiopia’s PM hails Tedros election as WHO chief

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FILE - In this Wednesday April 28, 2010 file photo, United Nations World Heath Organization Director-General Margaret Chan, left, shakes hands with North Korea's No. 2 leader Kim Yong Nam, before sitting down for a formal meeting in Pyongyang. After leading the World Health Organization for the last decade, Dr. Margaret Chan knows all too well how politics infuses actions at nearly every level of the U.N. agency. As WHO member countries prepare to elect her successor on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 the Associated Press reveals eyebrow-raising details from internal documents that show how she appeased dictators in Turkmenistan and North Korea - and told then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin she'd see to how WHO might hire more Russians. (AP Photo, file)

AP Exclusive: Outgoing WHO head practiced art of appeasement

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March 29, 2016, file photo, Margaret Chan, left, General Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), and Bruce Aylward, right, Executive Director of WHO and Health Emergencies Director-General's Special Representative for the Ebola Response, speak to the media after The International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Ebola, during a press conference, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The World Health Organization routinely spends about $200 million a year on travel, far more than what it doles out to fight some of the biggest problems in public health including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press, published Sunday, May 21, 2017. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

AP Exclusive: Health agency spends more on travel than AIDS

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March 29, 2016, file photo, Margaret Chan, left, General Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), and Bruce Aylward, right, Executive Director of WHO and Health Emergencies Director-General's Special Representative for the Ebola Response, speak to the media after The International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Ebola, during a press conference, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The World Health Organization routinely spends about $200 million a year on travel, far more than what it doles out to fight some of the biggest problems in public health including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press, published Sunday, May 21, 2017. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

WHO spends millions more dollars on travel than fighting disease: Report

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, March 29, 2016, file photo, Margaret Chan, left, General Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), and Bruce Aylward, right, Executive Director of WHO and Health Emergencies Director-General's Special Representative for the Ebola Response, speak to the media after The International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Ebola, during a press conference, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The World Health Organization routinely spends about $200 million a year on travel, far more than what it doles out to fight some of the biggest problems in public health including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press, published Sunday, May 21, 2017. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

AP Exclusive: UN health agency slammed for high travel costs

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

China's Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization, WHO, greets delegates after her statement, during the 70th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 22, 2017. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

The Latest: US ‘disappointed’ Taiwan not at WHO assembly

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This photo shows the five-star Palm Camayenne Hotel in Conakry, Guinea, on Saturday, May 20, 2017. On a recent trip to Guinea where Margaret Chan, General Director of the World Health Organization, praised health workers in West Africa for triumphing over Ebola, she stayed in the presidential suite at the Palm Camayenne hotel in Conakry, which has an advertised price of 900 euros a night. As the cash-strapped U.N. health agency has pleaded for more money to fund its responses to health crises worldwide, it has also been struggling to get its own travel costs under control. (AP Photo/Youssouf Bah)

AP Exclusive: Strapped UN health agency spends big on travel

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2017 file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Ethiopian former Minister of Health, speaks at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. For the first time, WHO’s governing body made up of 194 member states will choose from three candidates, Tuesday May 23, 2017. not one pre-selected by its executive board, as in past years. David Nabarro a British physician, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus a former Ethiopian health minister and Pakistani doctor Sania Nishtar are the candidates to replace WHO Director General Dr. Margaret Chan. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, file)

3 vie for top WHO post in UN health agency election

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This undated colorized transmission electron micrograph file image made available by the CDC shows an Ebola virus virion. (Frederick Murphy/CDC via AP, File)

WHO: Up to 20 Ebola cases, and three deaths, reported in Congo

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 5, 2013, file photo, chemotherapy is administered to a cancer patient via intravenous drip at a hospital in Durham, N.C. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

WHO annual global health report shows improvements in cause-of-death records

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

Taiwan pushes for inclusion in global health summit

By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

This is a Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015, file photo of Walter Martin as he prepares a coffee in his coffee shop in the colonial district of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. The World Health Organization's research arm has downgraded its classification of coffee as a possible carcinogen, declaring there isn't enough proof to show a link to cancer. But the International Agency for Research on Cancer, or IARC, also announced in a report published on Wednesday June 15, 2016, that drinking "very hot" beverages of any kind could potentially raise the cancer risk. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File)

WHO asks manufacturers to develop generic cancer drugs for worldwide distribution

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

WHO chief praises Guineans for help with Ebola vaccine

By BOUBACAR DIALLO and KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

Correction: Africa-Malaria Vaccine story

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2009, file photo, a mother holds her baby receiving a new malaria vaccine as part of a trial at the Walter Reed Project Research Center in Kombewa in Western Kenya. The World Health Organization says three African countries have been chosen to test the world's first malaria vaccine. Ghana, Kenya and Malawi will begin piloting the injectable vaccine next year with young children. WHO said Monday, April 24, 2017, that the vaccine has the potential to save tens of thousands of lives if used with existing measures. The challenge is whether impoverished countries can deliver the required four doses of the vaccine for each child. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo, File)

Malaria vaccine pilot program coming to Africa in 2018

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times