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Bahrain on SARS-alert after 15 Saudi deathsHealth workers in Bahrain have been briefed on emergency procedures as the deadly SARS-like novel coronavirus caused the death of 15 people in Saudi Arabia, with at least nine in the kingdom’s Eastern Province. No suspected More… |
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2.4bn will lack improved sanitation in 2015Some 2.4 billion people – one-third of the world’s population – will remain without access to improved sanitation in 2015, according to a joint WHO/Unicef report issued today. The report, entitled Progress More… |
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New virus ‘can probably pass person to person’The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Sunday it appeared likely that the novel coronavirus, which has killed 18 people in the Middle East and Europe, could be passed between people in close contact. The coronavirus is from t More… |
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Plans urged against latent virus threat in BahrainHealth authorities were yesterday urged to take immediate pre-emptive measures to avert a potential outbreak of SARS-like coronavirus in Bahrain, a report said. Parliament's foreign affairs, defence and national security commi More… |
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WHO team heads to virus-hit Saudi hospitalWorld Health Organization (WHO) experts and local officials will visit a Saudi hospital where the SARS-like coronavirus has spread, killing seven people, said the UN agency. France reported its first case on Wednesday in a 65-year More… |
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Bahrain on high SARS alert after Saudi deathsBahrain is on high alert following the outbreak of a SARS-like virus in Saudi Arabia, a report said. The novel coronavirus (NCoV) has so-far killed six people there and two others are in intensive care, according to the report in More… |
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New $5.5bn plan aims to eradicate polio by 2018Health groups said on Thursday they could rid the world of polio by 2018 with a $5.5 billion vaccination and monitoring plan to stop the disease taking hold once more now there are only a handful of cases worldwide. Experts say th More… |
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New bird strain among most lethal flu viruses: WHOA new bird flu strain that has killed 22 people in China is "one of the most lethal" of its kind and transmits more easily to humans than another strain that has killed hundreds since 2003, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert said More… |
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Warning on global TB threat, funding gapDeadly strains of tuberculosis (TB) resistant to multiple drugs are spreading around the world, and authorities urgently need another $1.6 billion a year to tackle them, global health officials said on Monday. &nbs More… |
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Most countries ‘lacking in cancer care services’More than half of all countries worldwide are struggling to prevent cancer and provide treatment and chronic care to cancer patients, warned a recent World Health Organisation (WHO) survey for World Cancer Day. This means, current More… |
