GENEVA, July 9: The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has now claimed 600 lives, figures published by the World Health Organization showed Thursday -- only three days after the fig...
KINSHASA, July 4: The Democratic Republic of the Congo reported 1,502 confirmed Ebola cases, including 473 deaths, as the World Health Organization said the outbreak remains serious.
KATHMANDU, June 25: The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Government of Sri Lanka, UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA), the World Health Organization Regional Offic...

France. As the G7 summit is starting in France, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have issued a joint...
BERLIN, June 12: More than 200,000 lives have been lost to the "silent killer" of heat in Europe since 2022, the World Health Organization said Thursday, after a heatwave saw some countries record ...

Epidemiology and Disease Control Division asks WHO for urgent doses. Gayatri Pandey, a resident of Nala in Kavrepalanchok district travelled to Kathmandu on Wednesday for a rabies shot after healt...

Congo. The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a comprehensive regional plan of 518 million US dollars to strengthen Ebola outbreak control and preparedness capacity in the Democratic Repu...

Kathmandu. Due to contaminated food, approximately 86.6 million people worldwide fall ill every year and 1.5 million people die, the World Health Organization (WHO) has stated. According to the new...

Kathmandu. Statistics have been released that approximately 600 million people worldwide fall ill every year due to contaminated food items. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about ...

Kathmandu. Tuberculosis, a major public health problem, is causing the death of 53 out of every one lakh people. According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 67,000 new tuberculosis pat...

Kathmandu. World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has urged some countries to reconsider travel bans and border closures imposed due to the Ebola outbreak sprea...

French aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on Saturday warned that the latest Ebola outbreak - the 17th since 1976 - was spreading at an unprecedented pace. The World Health Organisation chi...

WHO prioritises experimental drugs, antivirals and vaccine candidates for clinical trials as Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak spreads in Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, with no approved speci...

GENEVA, May 27: The World Health Organization chief warned Wednesday that conflict raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was dramatically complicating efforts to rein in a deadly Ebola out...

This makes the virus extremely difficult to identify and to track suspected cases at an early stage. On May 17, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a Public Health Emergency of Internatio...

The virginity test, which the World Health Organisation has called unscientific, is still a regular part of rape investigations in Nepal. Editor’s note: This article contains sensitive description...
KATHMANDU, May 22: Minister for Health and Food Safety Nisha Mehta and Director General of the World Health Organization Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus held a meeting in Switzerland.

New York. The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that it may take up to nine months for a vaccine against the Bundibugyo species of Ebola to be ready. According to information provided by ...

KINSHAHA, May 17: An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than 80 as authorities warned there was no vaccine for the strain in a crisis that the World Health Organizat...
17th May 2026, Kathmandu The World Health Organization has officially declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern following a highly aggressive outbreak of Ebola virus disease in t...

The WHO said the outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo virus, does not meet the criteria of a pandemic emergency but that countries sharing land borders with DRC are at high risk for further spread. ...

