WHO: Only half of human bird flu cases reported within two weeks of detection
The World Health Organization (WHO) said the rising number of bird flu cases has raised "great concern" because it had an "extremely high" mortality rate among those who had been infected around the world. The WHO's data show that from 2003 through March 2024, a total of 889 worldwide ...
The COVID-19 pandemic caught the world unprepared, and it has exacted a toll many would have considered inconceivable in the modern era before its emergence. As of 31 December 2021, more than 287 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 across the world had been reported to the World Health Or...
According to estimates based on wastewater analysis, the actual circulation of COVID-19 is two to 19 times higher than the number of reported cases, Maria van Kerkhove, the interim director of WHO responsible for epidemic and pandemic pr...
Measles cases have skyrocketed in recent years after a COVID-19 pandemic-era drop in vaccination against the virus. Cases of the disease increased by 20 percent across the globe between 2022 and 2023, rising from 8,645,000 to 10,341,000, according to a
The World Health Organization expressed heightened concern following the presentation of new evidence on clinical aspects of the H1N1 pandemic by experts from heavily affected countries, which document that "primary viral pneumonia is the most common finding in severe cases and a frequent cause of deat...
The bodies of those killed by COVID-19 are washed carefully and placed in a sealed body bag so as not to spread infection, a health ministry spokesman, Khaled Megahed, told the Saudi-owned Egyptian broadcaster MBC Masr. Egypt on Saturday registered 145 new cases ...
Tedros said it was “certain” that cases of COVID-19 were increasing in other places that have not been reporting case numbers. 谭德塞表示,“可以肯定”,在其他尚未报告病例数的地方,COVID-19 病例正在增加。 Tedros said the JN.1 variant is now the most common in the world. Since it is...
Accurately counting COVID-19 deaths has been problematic throughout the pandemic, as reports of confirmed cases represent only a fraction of the devastation wrought by the virus, largely because of limited testing. Government figures reported to WHO and a separate tally kept by Johns ...
cases of long COVID have arisen from these milder cases despite their lower risk. Among all people with long COVID, our study found that nearly one out of every seven were still experiencing these symptoms a year later, and researchers don't yet know how many of these cases may become ...