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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.

According to the World Health Organization, while the risk to humans remains low for now, bird flu needs 'to be monitored closely.' Canadian health experts agree.

Rescuers pulled several people alive from the shattered remnants of buildings on Friday, some who survived more than 100 hours trapped under crushed concrete in the bitter cold.

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.

From the climate crisis, to unmarked graves at residential schools, to the U.S. Capitol riots, Global News looks back on some of the biggest news headlines of 2021.

The UN agency plans to soon publish a guide for countries on how to move from an emergency response to the long-term management of COVID-19.

Peaks in Omicron infections in some countries may be a sign of good news, but no one is out from under COVID-19's grip yet, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

The developments come as countries debated a new global convention on pandemic preparedness and response at a special meeting of the World Health Assembly on Monday.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has previously pressed China to be more forthcoming with data and information related to the origin of the virus.

WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said it would be "unwise" to conclude from early evidence that Omicron was a milder variant that previous ones.

An additional dose can increase protection for the immunocompromised but it’s too early to give the general population a fourth COVID-19 shot, experts say.