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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

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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

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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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

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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

Defund Davos Act and WHO Withdrawal Act stop U.S. globalist organizations funding illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Defund Davos Act would reduce globalist organizations’ unnecessary financial burden on U.S.

By David Wanetick

Vials of single doses of the Jynneos vaccine for monkeypox are seen from a cooler at a vaccination site on Aug. 29, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. As Congo copes with its biggest outbreak of mpox, scientists warn discrimination against gay and bisexual men on the continent could make it worse. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)

Stigma against gay men could worsen Congo’s biggest mpox outbreak, scientists warn

By Jean-Yves Kamale and Maria Cheng - Associated Press

A man carriers a child walk out from a crowded holding room of a children's hospital in Beijing on Oct. 30, 2023. A surge in respiratory illnesses across China that has drawn the attention of the World Health Organization is caused by the flu and other known pathogens and not by a novel virus, the country's health ministry said Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China says a surge in respiratory illnesses is caused by flu and other known pathogens

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Vials of single doses of the Jynneos vaccine for monkeypox are seen from a cooler at a vaccination site on Aug. 29, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The World Health Organization said it has confirmed sexual transmission of mpox in Congo for the first time during the country's biggest-ever outbreak, in a worrying development African scientists warn could make it more difficult to stop the disease. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)

U.N. confirms sexual spread of mpox in Congo for the 1st time as country sees a record outbreak

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

Patients use nebulizers during a test for the presence of TB, at the Tembalete, a U.S. funded Right to Care Clinic at the Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg Wednesday, Dec 17, 2008. In a series of moves experts say signal a shift in how developing countries deal with pharmaceuticals, South Africa, Colombia and others have recently adopted a more combative approach towards drugmakers, pushing back on policies that deny treatment to millions of people with tuberculosis and HIV. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)

South Africa, Colombia and others are fighting drugmakers over access to TB and HIV drugs

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Residents wearing face masks line up behind barricaded tapes for COVID-19 mass testing near a residential area on May 15, 2022, in Beijing. The World Health Organization says it’s made an official request to China for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

WHO asks China for more information about rise in illnesses and pneumonia clusters

By Jamey Keaten and Maria Cheng - Associated Press

A Palestinian woman sits by houses destroyed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Live updates | WHO official says Gaza hospital situation ‘catastrophic’

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Dr. Gaya Gamhewage, WHO director of the Prevention of and Response to Sexual Misconduct, speaks during the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, May 25, 2023. Internal documents obtained by The Associated Press show that the World Health Organisation has paid $250 each to at least 104 women in Congo who say they were sexually abused or exploited by Ebola outbreak responders. That amount is less than what some U.N. officials are given for a single day's expenses when working in Congo. (Antoine Tardy/WHO via AP)

Internal documents show the World Health Organization paid sexual abuse victims in Congo $250 each

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press