WHO
May 03, 2013
LONDON--Human cases of a deadly new strain of bird flu that has killed 27 people in China are likely to crop up in Europe and around the world but that should not cause undue...
April 24, 2013
BEIJING--A new strain of bird flu that has killed 22 people in China is "one of the most lethal" of its kind and is more easily transmissible to humans than an earlier strain...
April 23, 2013
BEIJING--An elderly man in eastern China died of bird flu on April 23, bringing the death toll from a strain that recently emerged in humans to 22, a provincial health agency...
April 22, 2013
GENEVA--Two more people have died from a new strain of avian influenza, bringing to 20 the number of deaths from the H7N9 virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on...
April 19, 2013
BEIJING--More than 50 percent of patients infected with a new type of bird flu in China had no contact with poultry, the World Health Organization said on April 19, further...
April 16, 2013
GENEVA--An international team of flu experts will go to China this week to help with investigations into the deadly H7N9 virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on...
April 10, 2013
The World Health Organization said April 9 that it was looking into two suspected “family clusters” of people in China who may be infected with the H7N9 virus, potentially...
April 08, 2013
BEIJING--The World Health Organization is talking with the Chinese government about sending international experts to China to help investigate a new bird flu strain that has...
April 01, 2013
BEIJING--Health officials say they still don't understand how a lesser-known bird flu virus was able to kill two men and seriously sicken a woman in China, but that it's...
February 28, 2013
LONDON--People exposed to the highest doses of radiation during the Fukushima nuclear plant accident in 2011 may have a slightly higher risk of cancer that is so small it...
February 27, 2013
FUKUSHIMA--Thyroid gland doses of internal radiation in year-old infants living within 30 kilometers of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are well within safety limits,...
December 07, 2012
Radiation doses that raise the risk of cancer have been recorded in dozens of workers--or about 1 percent of the work force--at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
December 01, 2012
Dozens of workers received potentially cancerous doses of radiation to their thyroid glands during recovery work at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to data...
November 25, 2012
Cases of cancer caused by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident will not increase significantly, although the risk facing infants near the plant has risen, a draft...
September 11, 2012
JAKARTA, Indonesia--Indonesian men rank as the world's top smokers, with two out of three of them lighting up in a country where cigarettes cost pennies and tobacco advertising ...
July 20, 2012
The World Health Organization plans to create a coding system to track human tissue traded for transplants and ingredients in drugs to secure safety and prevent illegal...
June 06, 2012
LONDON--Drug-resistant strains of gonorrhoea have spread to countries across the world, the U.N. health agency said on June 6, and millions of patients may run out of treatment ...
May 24, 2012
The government has angrily taken issue with a May 23 report by the World Health Organization on overall levels of radiation exposure in Japan, accusing it of overestimating the ...
May 23, 2012
Last year's accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant exposed local residents to whole-body radiation doses of up to 50 millisieverts, well below the safety threshold,...
May 17, 2012
LONDON--Health data released on May 16 provided the clearest evidence to date of the spread of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease from developed nations to poorer ...