GENEVA, Nov 12 — Talks aimed at reaching a global agreement on how to better fight pandemics will continue into next year and are expected to be completed by the next World Health Assembly in May, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.

GENEVA, Nov 11 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) will convene a meeting of its Emergency Committee next week to determine whether mpox remains a global health crisis, it said in a statement today.

NEW YORK, Nov 2 — A third phase of the polio vaccination campaign in the northern Gaza Strip is set to resume on Saturday after being postponed over escalating violence, reported Xinhua.

KHAN YOUNIS, Oct 6 — In the ruins of his two-storey home, 11-year-old Mohammed gathers chunks of the fallen roof into a broken pail and pounds them into gravel which his father will use to make gravestones for victims of the Gaza war.

YANGON, Sept 20 — Myanmar has received 2.45 million doses of oral cholera vaccines from the World Health Organisation (WHO), reported Xinhua, quoting state-run daily The Myanma Alinn today.

DAKAR, Sept 19 — The mpox outbreak in Africa is still not under control, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) warned today, adding that cases are still increasing in several countries.

By Selangor Journal Team SHAH ALAM, Sept 18 — The state government is taking prompt action to identify and manage instances of the mpox virus in Malaysia, said state executive councillor for public health and the environment Jamaliah Jamaluddin. This comes after the Health Ministry (MOH)...

JAKARTA, Sept 18 — Indonesia is currently short of 120,000 general practitioners, according to its Deputy Health Minister Dante Saksono Harbuwono.

GENEVA, Sept 13 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced the approval of the MVA-BN vaccine, developed by Bavarian Nordic A/S, as the first-ever mpox vaccine to be added to its prequalification list, reported Xinhua.

GENEVA, Sept 13 — The first round of the polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip is nearing completion, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday, with more than 552,000 children having received their first dose of the oral vaccine.

NEW DELHI, Sept 8 — India had recorded a suspected case of mpox found in a man who recently travelled from a country suffering an outbreak of the virus, the health ministry said today.

DUNGUN, Aug 24 — The government has activated a special operations room at the National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC) since last Friday (August 16), to monitor and prevent the spread of the monkeypox (mpox) outbreak.

By Selangor Journal Team SHAH ALAM, Aug 23 — State executive councillor for public health and environment Jamaliah Jamaluddin has urged Selangor residents to avoid high-risk activities and seek medical attention if they exhibit Mpox symptoms.  This is after the World Health Organisation's...

BERLIN, Aug 20 — A World Health Organisation official stressed today that mpox, regardless of the new or old strain, is not the new Covid-19, as authorities know how to control its spread.

GEORGE TOWN, Aug 20 — The government has not planned to implement a vaccination programme for monkeypox or mpox for the people of this country, said Deputy Health Minister Datuk Lukanisman Awang Sauni.

KINSHASA, Aug 20 — The ongoing mpox outbreak has been declared a "continental emergency," according to the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Health Minister Samuel-Roger Kamba.

PESHAWAR, Aug 16 — Pakistan's Health Ministry has confirmed at least one case of the mpox virus in a patient who had returned from a Gulf country, it said today, as provincial health authorities reported they had detected at least three cases.

GENEVA, Aug 15 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years, following an outbreak of the viral infection in Democratic Republic of Congo that has spread to neighbouring countries.

GENEVA, July 30 — Around a quarter of adolescent girls who have been in relationships have endured physical or sexual violence, a World Health Organisation (WHO) study said today, calling for more prevention actions.

GENEVA, July 29 — Bird flu vaccine developer Sinergium Biotech will share its data with manufacturers in low and middle-income countries to help to accelerate a fair rollout if a pandemic occurs, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said today.