Hantavirus strain that can transmit from person to person -- Andes virus -- has been confirmed among those who have tested positive, fuelli...

Three passengers died from hantavirus after a cruise. The World Health Organization believes the outbreak will be limited if precautions ar...

In a worrying development, Iran's nuclear program has drawn the alarm of the World Health Organization and the International Atomic Energy ...

Marburg virus disease outbreak in Tanzania has caused worry as symptoms, death rate, and treatment details are out.

The World Health Organisation (WHO), DG, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has reminded people that Covid is still around and countermeasures a...

"We need to continue to push until we get the answer," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters, referring to the search for the origins o...

It is three years since the WHO first declared that Covid represented a global health emergency. More than 6.8 million people have died dur...

Cases reported to WHO had risen by 30% in the last fortnight, although increased population immunity, largely from vaccines, had seen a "de...

"Over 1,000 #monkeypox cases have been reported from 29 countries where the disease is not endemic, with no deaths reported so far in these...

Taking to Twitter, Prime Minister said, "Delighted that the entire team of ASHA workers have been conferred the WHO Director-General's Glob...

"Two MoUs have been signed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) with the Ministry of AYUSH (MoA), one for starting Ayurveda Centres at 37 Canto...

In a statement on Wednesday, the U.N. health agency says the three drugs would be adopted into the next phase of its ongoing global researc...

Announcing the agency had secured nearly two billion doses of vaccine candidates, the WHO said in a statement that this would "enable all p...

"We encourage the WHO to expand its efforts to offer Taiwan increased meaningful cooperation and collaboration with the organization, and t...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus insisted WHO was focusing on "saving lives" as he lashed out Thursday at the comments that British media said Po...

"This is the first treatment to be shown to reduce mortality in patients with COVID-19 requiring oxygen or ventilator support," WHO Directo...

The new coronavirus outbreak "is a controllable pandemic" if countries step up measures to tackle it, the head of the World Health Organiza...