World Health Organization

...built. Now the threat from contaminated water may be greater than that from the weather. The World Health Organization says it is battling serious outbreaks of waterborne diseases like Leptospirosis and acute diarrhoea, as well as...

In this article: Manila, Waterborne diseases, Philippines, and Leptospirosis

...H1N1 but noted they were limited so far and that there were no indications yet the virus was mutating in a sustained way. The World Health Organization said H1N1 flu was moving eastward across Europe and Asia after appearing to...

In this article: Influenza, H1N1, Tamiflu, United States, Norway, Canada, Relenza, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and Quest Diagnostics

...have gotten severely ill, including developing pneumonia, after being infected with strains of the virus without the mutation. The World Health Organization said viruses with a similar mutation had been detected in several other...

In this article: Influenza, H1N1, University Medical Center, United States, E mail, Relenza, and Tamiflu

GENEVA -- The World Health Organization said Friday it is investigating samples of variant swine flu linked to two deaths and one severe case in Norway, but that so far the significance of the mutation is unclear. Norway's Institute of...

In this article: FLU, Norway, Geneva, United States, and Europe

...drugs made by groups such as Roche <ROG.VX>, GlaxoSmithKline <GSK.L>, Novartis <NOVN.VX> and AstraZeneca <AZN.L>, the authorities said. The World Health Organisation said that the mutation did not appear to be widespread in Norway and the...

In this article: Norway, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Novartis, World Health Organisation, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

...he added. CDC estimates that at least 22 million Americans have been infected, with 3,900 deaths. The trend may be broad, the World Health Organization said, mentioning "early signs of a peak in disease activity in some areas of...

In this article: Influenza, H1N1, United States, Quest Diagnostics, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

In this article: FLU, Norway, and Geneva

...have not been testing deaths from severe (pneumonia) and treating them as cases of ordinary pneumonia without any question." The World Health Organization does not have a standard for which deaths to attribute to H1N1, although it does...

In this article: China, FLU, Beijing, and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Thursday the H1N1 vaccine had been cleared of blame for 41 deaths which health authorities worldwide had investigated after suspicions they might have been caused by the inoculation.

In this article: H1N1, FLU, Guillain-Barre syndrome, Headache, Fever, Novartis, and Sanofi-Aventis

...of Health has reported 16 744 suspected cases of dengue in five islands: Brava, Fogo, Maio, Sal and Santiago. The World Health Organization (WHO) is working closely with the government of Cape Verde to support technical response to the...

In this article: Dengue fever, Cape Verde, Ministry of Health, Yellow fever, Larvicide, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, Chikungunya, Rift Valley fever, West Nile virus, and Senegal