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Ahead of the 2024 UN Climate Change Conference in Baku (COP29), the World Health Organization (WHO) calls for an end to reliance on fossil fuels and advocates for people-centred adaptation and resilience. Launching the COP29 special report…
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Delhi Air Quality Index (AQI) continues to deteriorate as it crossed the 400 mark on Sunday, two days after Diwali. The air pollution level now lies in the alarming 'hazardous' category in the national capital as of 8:30 am, which is…
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India on Monday has reported the first case of the Mpox clade 1 strain, official sources told PTI. This is the same strain which led to the World Health Organisation (WHO) declaring Mpox a public health emergency last month. The Mpox clade…
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Climate change is increasingly impacting mental health and psychosocial well-being, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, calling on member countries in Southeast Asia Region to strengthen mental health systems and services to address…
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The international community’s recent failure to conclude a global pandemic agreement leaves large gaps in our capacity to deal with the next major infectious disease emergency. The risk of another pandemic like COVID – the worst in a…
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A person died of bird flu in Mexico in the first confirmed case of a human infected with the H5N2 variant, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The 59-year old, who died on April 24 after developing fever, shortness of breath,…
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कोरोना वायरस ने एक बार फिर से दुनिया को अपनी गिरफ्त में लेना शुरू कर दिया है. हालांकि, मौक के मामलों में थोड़ी कमी देखी गई है. विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन (डब्ल्यूएचओ) ने अपने ताजा अपडेट में कहा कि 3,000 से अधिक नई मौतों के साथ पिछले 28 दिनों की…
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Seven months after the World Health Organization downgraded mpox from a global threat, an outbreak in Africa could go beyond the continent’s borders. What is mpox and how dangerous is it? After a year in which nearly 90,000 people were…
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A north Gaza hospital that Israeli troops raided is no longer functioning and patients including babies have been evacuated, putting the enclave’s collapsing health services in further peril, a World Health Organization official said on…
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The World Health Organization on Thursday said several contaminated syrups and suspension medicines had been identified in countries in the WHO regions of the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean, South-East Asia and the Western Pacific.…
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