WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
New Delhi: With the deadly swine flu virus constantly evolving, the World Health Organization (WHO) has not ruled out the possibility of increasing its alert level to the highest-possible level 6, which would mean a global pandemic is
Slowly but surely, the virus commonly known as swine flu continued to spread across the globe Friday, as the number of confirmed cases rose from 257 to 331, the World Health Organization in Geneva reported. In Europe, authorities voiced fears that the virus was now being transferred within their own …
On 27 April, 6 days after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first reported an unusual swine flu outbreak in humans, international agencies were still struggling to determine how serious a threat the virus posed. Shortly after CDC rang the alarm bell on 21 April in a …
Drinking-water quality is an issue of concern for human health in developing and developed countries world-wide. The risks arise from infectious agents, toxic chemicals and radiological hazards. Experience highlights the value of preventive management approaches spanning from water resource to consumer. WHO produces international norms on water quality and human …
N. Gopal Raj With the new swine flu showing robust human-to-human transmission, the risk of catching the disease does not come from pigs or pork consumption. Late on Wednesday night, the World Health Organisation raised its pandemic alert to Phase 5, a warning that the new swine flu virus was …
Mexican president asks citizens to stay home from May 1-5, WHO raises alert level to 5 Mexican President Felipe Calderon told his people to stay home from Friday for a five-day partial shutdown of the economy, after the World Health Organization (WHO) said a swine flu pandemic was imminent. It …
"Swine flu is spreading fast across continents." The rapid pace at which swine flu is spreading across the world has set alarm bells ringing. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised its pandemic alert level over the deadly virus to phase 4, indicating the infection could spread between humans to …
This WHO annual health report looks at 100 statistics provided by 193 member countries. This year it provides the first assessment of MDGs progress and reveals that deaths of children aged under five years have dropped by 27% globally since 1990. World Health Statistics 2009 contains WHO
The World Health Organization said Thursday that a new flu strain continued to spread, particularly in Mexico and the U.S., but refrained from declaring a global pandemic even as more countries confirmed cases. Amid a growing debate around the globe about travel restrictions, the United Nations public-health agency raised the …
New Delhi: The WHO is moving closer to declaring a pandemic alert phase five for swine flu, just one step short of announcing a full-blown pandemic. Confirming that the swine flu outbreak was clearly showing human-to-human transmission with no indication of it slowing down, WHO
Berlin/London ? U.S. REPORTS FIRST DEATH; U.K. HOMES TO GET LEAFLETS, 32M MASKS ORDERED US President Barack Obama said school authorities with confirmed cases of swine flu should consider closing Germany and Austria confirmed cases of swine flu on Wednesday, becoming the third and fourth European countries hit by the …
The global spread of swine flu, a pandemic, is highly likely, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday and raised its alert level to Phase 5, the next-to-highest level in the worldwide warning system. Commuters wore protective masks at a subway station in Mexico City on Wednesday. Phase 5 had …
World Health Organisation (WHO) has agreed to provide a grant of Rs 800 million to the Punjab government during the next five years for the eradication of Malaria in the province. Sources in the health department told Business Recorder on Tuesday that the government has also approved an amount of …
With the World Health Organization (WHO) increasing the pandemic alert level for the swine influenza outbreak, the public health department (PHD) decided yesterday to implement counter measures throughout the country. The PHD director, Dr Ugen Dophu, said there was no need to panic, but that we shouldn
Beijing: Countries like India that have low pork consumption and less pig breeding are as vulnerable to swine fever as countries where pork is widely consumed, an official of the WHO said in Beijing. At this stage, pig is not part of the transmission, Hans Troedsson, the WHO representative in …
