Tedros Adhanom
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Brazil monitors patients for Ebola as travellers return from Africa
The virus is also being detected across a widening swath of the DRC’s conflict-hit east as health authorities struggle to trace exposed contacts and determine the true scale of the epidemic.
- Rhea Rose Abraham
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‘Every hour making coffins’: Funeral wakes banned as WHO lifts Ebola threat to ‘very high’
There are now 750 suspected cases and 177 suspected deaths, and one senior official has described the effort to stop the rapid spread as “a race against the clock”.
- Justin Kabumba and Monika Pronczuk
US-bound plane diverts to Canada over Ebola alert
The US has imposed restrictions on flights from regions linked to the outbreak, as a Congolese treatment centre is burnt down amid growing anger over the health crisis.
- Rob Gillies
- Opinion
- Healthcare
Fifty years ago, these men set out to defeat an insidious disease. A fortnight ago, they did
Fred Hollows was a true mentor and teacher. Following his example, on April 29, Australia finally defeated the world’s leading infectious cause of preventable blindness.
- Hugh Taylor
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Rescue flight on way to collect Australians from virus cruise ship
The vessel has arrived in the Canary Islands after the Spanish government overruled a local attempt to block its entry.
- David Crowe and Josh Bavas
Trump has abandoned the WHO. Now India and China are moving in
At the World Health Organisation’s global summit in New Delhi last month, traditional medicine practitioners joined with scientists and government ministers.
- Maeve Cullinan
WHO chief caught up in Israeli airstrike ‘lesson’ on Yemen
“The Houthis will also learn what Hamas, Hezbollah, the Assad regime have learned. This lesson will be understood across the Middle East,” the Israeli PM said.
- Daniel Hardaker and Jotam Confino
WHO declares mpox global health emergency over
The disease wasn’t known to spark big outbreaks beyond the continent or to spread easily among people until last May, when dozens of epidemics emerged in Europe, North America and elsewhere.
- Maria Cheng
WHO says end of COVID in sight, deaths at lowest since March 2020
In its weekly report on the pandemic, the UN health agency said deaths fell by 22 per cent in the past week, at just over 11,000 reported worldwide.
WHO lays out plan to emerge from COVID’s emergency phase
To help end the emergency, WHO called on countries to continue or increase virus surveillance capabilities to allow for early warning signs of significant changes in the virus.
- Julie Steenhuysen and Mrinalika Roy