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The World Health Organization and partners embarked on their polio campaign in 1988 with the bold goal of eradication — a feat seen only once with smallpox in 1980.

Officials acknowledged that the collapse of international aid this year will make it more difficult to reduce the number of unprotected children.

The World Health Organization's probe into the cause of COVID-19 has not resulted in a definitive reason, with its director-general saying all scenarios 'remain on the table.'

The World Health Organization’s member countries agreed on a draft 'pandemic treaty' that sets guidelines for how to confront the next global health crisis.

This is the second outbreak of Marburg in Kagera since 2023.

Rwanda says eight people have died so far from the Ebola-like and highly contagious Marburg virus, just days after the country declared an outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic fever.

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years, following an outbreak of the virus in parts of Africa. 

Africa's top public health body declared what it termed a 'public health emergency of continental security' on Tuesday over an outbreak of mpox.

One WHO official urged countries, institutions and research groups that might have any information on the origins of the pandemic to share it with the international community.

The two-day Collision conference begins Wednesday and Trudeau is to take part in a question and answer session with a Financial Times editor on Thursday.

Support for Taiwan is controversial because China vigorously opposes granting any such access.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hailed the program as "good news'' in the fight against COVID-19.

The World Health Organization's COVAX initiative is meant to fight against coronavirus vaccine hoarding by some countries.

The WHO chief said there had been a “premature push” to rule out the theory that COVID-19 might have escaped from a Chinese government lab in Wuhan.

More than 79 per cent of eligible Canadians over the age of 12 are now at least partly vaccinated against COVID-19, and 54 per cent are fully vaccinated.

The G20's final communique, while stressing support for "equitable global sharing" of vaccines, did not propose concrete measures.

The deliveries for the week of July 19 to 23 will include about 3.1 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and four million doses of Moderna.

Japan has reported about 853,000 cases and 15,100 deaths since the COVID-19 pandemic began, most of them this year, ahead of the 2020 Olympics which start Friday.

Many EU countries have already begun giving COVID-19 booster doses to their populations but are using different intervals between the first shots and boosters.

Numerous health experts and scientists have called for an independent investigation into the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, to be conducted beyond the WHO.