Margaret Chan

Antimicrobial resistance – the ability of bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites to resist the effects of a medicine that could previously treat t(...)

Pollution is responsible for one in four deaths among all children under five, according to new World Health Organisation reports, with toxic air, uns(...)

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared on Friday that the Zika virus and related neurological complications no longer constitute an internationa(...)

The director-general of the World Health Organisation has said its Zika emergency committee will carry out a new risk assessment on whether the Olympi(...)

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has rejected calls from 150 leading scientists to move or postpone the Rio Olympics because of the ongoing Zika vi(...)

An emergency World Health Organisation (WHO) committee will meet on Monday to advise on the international response to the Zika virus, as the number o(...)

The World Health Organisation has warned that the Zika virus is “spreading explosively” in the Americas and that as many as four million people could (...)

The World Health Organisation has convened an emergency committee to discuss the “explosive” spread of the Zika virus, which is linked to thousands of(...)

The World Health Organization (WHO) expects the Zika virus, which is spreading through the Americas, to affect between three million and four million (...)

The mosquito-borne Zika virus, which is suspected of causing brain damage to babies in Brazil, is likely to spread to all countries in the Americas e(...)