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WHO warns ‘black rain’ in Iran after oil strikes could cause respiratory problems

The UN health agency, which has an office in Iran and works with authorities on health emergencies, said it has received multiple reports of oil-laden rain this week.

An Iranian Kurdish man in traditional outfit walks past an anti-US billboard displayed on a building in Tehran's Valiasr Square on February 4, 2026
Slimming injections

Dr. Maya Rosman reveals: How much weight do slimming injections really help you lose?

  The World Health Organization (WHO) logo is seen near its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, February 2, 2023.

Mendelovich says Israel should remain in WHO until alternative is set up

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker pauses as he speaks during a Veterans Day commemoration at the Manuel Perez Jr. Plaza in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 11, 2025.

Illinois joins WHO global outbreak network despite US withdrawal from agency


COVID remains a public health emergency, says WHO

It is three years since the WHO first declared that COVID represented a global health emergency.

A logo is pictured outside a building of the World Health Organization (WHO) during an executive board meeting on update on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Geneva, Switzerland, April 6, 2021.

WHO doctor kidnapped in eastern Mali

The doctor was taken from his car in the town of Menaka, where Jihadist groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State are active.

A logo is pictured outside a building of the World Health Organization (WHO) during an executive board meeting on update on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Geneva, Switzerland, April 6, 2021.

WHO expert: China’s COVID-19 surge could lead to deadly mutation

Dr. Dorit Nitzan: “We have to be ready and alert.”

 Prof. Dorit Nitzan

What is XBB.1.5, the new coronavirus variant spreading in the US?

A mutation in the new variant allows it to spread better than its forebears, but can still avoid antibodies well.

 SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus behind COVID-19 (Illustrative).

Haiti receives first shipments of cholera vaccines: WHO

The Caribbean island nation has suffered from more than 230 deaths since the disease re-emerged this past fall.

 DR. YUVAL LEVY, part of an Israeli military medical team that treated earthquake victims in Haiti, holds hands with a 6-year-old Haitian boy expected to undergo heart surgery in Israel, upon their arrival from Haiti at Ben-Gurion Airport on January 28, 2010.

Uganda confirms Ebola case in country's east as outbreak expands

Uganda's health ministry is struggling to keep Ebola cases isolated.

 A person dressed in ebola protective apparel is seen inside an ebola care facility at the Bwera general hospital near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo in Bwera

Greatest threat to humanity: A list of 19 risk factors to our health

They seem harmless, but many types of fungi pose a real danger to the global population.

 Candida fungus

Uganda health ministry confirms Ebola outbreak

A 24-year-old man in Uganda's central Mubende district showed symptoms and later died.

 A member of the French Red Cross disinfects the area around a motionless person suspected of carrying the Ebola virus as a crowd gathers in Forecariah, Guinea.

Cholera outbreak in Syria poses serious threat - UN

Many Syrians are reliant on unsafe water sources due to the destruction of water infrastructure after over a decade of war.

Transmission electron microsope image of Vibrio cholerae, the bacteria responsible for cholera.

Herzog denounces politicization of World Health Assembly

"Such resolutions, based on falsehoods and ulterior motives, damage the work and reputation of this distinguished body, while negatively impacting on health cooperation in the region," he said.

 President Isaac Herzog speaking at the European Regional Conference of the World Health Organization, September 12, 2022.