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Saudi Arabia has reported another case of infection in a concentrated outbreak of a new strain of a virus that emerged in the Middle East last year and spread into Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday.In a disease outbreak update issued from its Geneva headquarters, the WHO said the latest patient is an 81-year-old woman with multiple medical conditions. She became ill on April 28 and is in a critical but stable condition.Worldwide, there have now been 41 laboratory-confirmed infections, including 20 deaths, since the new coronavirus was identified by scientists in September 2012.The novel coronavirus, which had been known as by the acronym nCoV but which some scientific journals now refer to as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, or MERS, belongs to the same family as viruses that cause common colds and the one that caused a deadly outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003.MERS cases have so far been reported in Saudi Arabia, Jordan...
China on Saturday reported its first case of H7N9 bird flu in the southern province of Hunan, the latest sign the virus that has killed 23 people in the country is c...
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 undu...
Four more people in China have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing to 31 the number of deaths from the mysterious H7N9 virus, with the number of infections ...
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The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that a number of people who have tested positive for a new strain of bird flu in China have had no history of contact...
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 ...
At the annual meeting of the governing body of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland Tuesday, a committee of world leaders decided to keep, for now, t...
The World Health Organization says the number of children wounded in violence in Somalia increased significantly in May after heavy fighting near Mogadishu's main ma...
A new swine flu strain that has killed as many as 68 people and sickened more than 1,000 across Mexico has "pandemic potential," the World Health Organization chief ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering a plan to ask governments to impose a global consumer tax on such things as Internet activity or everyday financia...
The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations ' public health arm, is moving full speed ahead with a controversial plan to impose global consumer taxes on ...
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World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Sunday it seemed likely a new coronavirus that has killed at least 18 people in the Middle East and Europe could be...
Two health workers in Saudi Arabia have become infected with a potentially fatal new SARS-like virus after catching it from patients in their care - the first eviden...
The World Health Organization says a yellow fever booster vaccination given 10 years after the initial shot isn't necessary.The U.N.'s global health agency said Frid...
World Health Organization (WHO) experts and local officials will visit a Saudi hospital where the SARS-like coronavirus has spread, killing seven people, the U.N. ag...
France has confirmed a second case of a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS, authorities said Sunday, as they increased efforts to inform the public about h...
Two multinational drugmakers are teaming up with top global health groups to protect millions of girls in the world's poorest countries from deadly cervical cancer.S...
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