A 70-year-old woman broke her leg while visiting India. Later, she went to a hospital in Reno, Nevada. Soon after, she was dead. The cause? Something that the Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thomas Frieden...
The World Health Organization has released new guidelines on care for women who have been subjected to genital mutilation (FGM). This is an effort to bring medical standardization to an extremely complicated – and controversial – topic. Female genital mutilation...
The World Health Organization has just declared the Zika Virus outbreak in Latin America to be a “public health emergency of international concern.” At a press conference this evening in Geneva, WHO director General Margaret Chan stressed that this declaration...
Earlier today, World Health Organization executive director Margaret Chan announced that the WHO would hold an emergency meeting on Monday on the Zika virus. Zika, said Chan, is now present in 23 countries and is “spreading explosively” in the Americas....
Ed note. This post was originally published in February 2015, when the WHO declared that the ebola outbreak in West Africa had largely been contained. Today, January 13, 2016, the World Health Organization declared the official end of the outbreak,...
The World Health Organization announced new data today on syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and trichomoniasis. All four infections are sexually transmitted, and all represent threats to global health. It feels strange to be discussing gonorrhea or trichomoniasis in 2015. They are...
The World Health Organization today released new global data on Tuberculosis. The biggest takeaway: TB has now ranks along side AIDS as the leading cause of death from infectious disease worldwide. In 2014, TB killed 1.5 million people worldwide, disproportionately...
Today’s map comes from the World Health Organization. It shows the number of days each district of Sierra Leone has gone since the last reported case of ebola. The magic number here is 42. This is double the 21 day...
Rubella has been eliminated from the Americas. More specifically, there has been no indigenous transmission of the virus in North America, South America or the Caribbean for the last three years. This may not make front page news–so far it’s...
