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Residents and rescue workers in the devastated Libyan city of Derna are struggling to cope with the thousands of corpses washing up or decaying under rubble, after a flood that smashed down buildings and swept people to sea. The World Health Organization and other aid groups urged authorities in Libya to stop burying flood victims in mass graves, saying these could bring long-term mental distress to families or cause health risks if located near water.

Waves of COVID will keep coming. Here’s how to live with them.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is partnering with the Rockefeller Foundation to address pandemics fueled by so-called climate change. The partnership is meant to strengthen the WHO Hub for [...]

The World Health Organization is suspected of downplaying Chinas role.

The World Health Organization is suspected of downplaying Chinas role.

The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), an international network for outbreak alert and response that...

As far as the World Health Organization is concerned, COVID-19 is no longer a world health emergency.

Sedefs relief at surviving Turkeys deadly earthquake is quickly giving way to fears she could succumb to diseases that threaten to take hold across shattered regions now devoid o...

Two women have been pulled from the rubble in Turkey's southern city of Kahramanmaras and a mother and two children were rescued from the city of Antakya, as rescue ...

Typical radiation emergency stockpile should contain stable iodine to lessen thyroid exposure to radioactive iodine, says WHO