World Health Organization

Latest Stories

A woman and a boy purchase face masks in Hong Kong, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. China’s death toll from a new virus has risen over 250 and a World Health Organization official says other governments need to prepare for “domestic outbreak control” if the disease spreads. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Philippines reports 1st virus death outside of China

Associated Press

In this Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, photo, people line up outside a fever clinic at Wuhan Union Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. The United States on Friday declared a public health emergency and took drastic steps to significantly restrict entry into the country because of a new virus that hit China and has spread to other nations. (Chinatopix via AP)

China death toll reaches 259; WHO warns countries to prepare

By Joe McDonald and Sam McNeil - Associated Press

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), talks to the media at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak of a new deadly virus which originated from China a "global health emergency." China, where the coronavirus emerged, has reported 170 deaths and at least 7,800 infections from the infection. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

Chinese coronavirus a global health emergency, World Health Organization says

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

A student wears a protective face mask in during class at the Dinh Cong secondary school in Hanoi, Vietnam on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. The authorities have advised students to wear masks to school, a day after Vietnam confirmed three more cases of the new virus. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

The Latest: WHO: Virus could overwhelm Africa health systems

Associated Press

A doctor attends to a patient in an isolation ward at a hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. China counted 170 deaths from a new virus Thursday and more countries reported infections, including some spread locally, as foreign evacuees from China's worst-hit region returned home to medical observation and even isolation. (Chinatopix via AP)

US bars foreigners coming from China for now over virus fear

By KEN MORITSUGU and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2020, file photo specialist David Haubner works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The U.S. stock market opens at 9:30 a.m. EST on Thursday, Jan. 30. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Asia shares mixed as WHO says China virus a global emergency

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

People line up to buy face masks from a medical supply company in Nanning in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. Countries began evacuating their citizens Wednesday from the Chinese city hardest-hit by a new virus that has now infected more people in China than were sickened in the country by SARS. (Chinatopix via AP)

China counts 170 virus deaths, new countries find infections

By KEN MORITSUGU Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

Passengers board buses after arriving on an airplane carrying U.S. citizens being evacuated from Wuhan, China, at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, Calif. Jan. 29, 2020. The passengers will undergo additional screenings in California and be placed in temporary housing. Officials have not said how long they will stay there. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

The Latest: Russia closing its land border with China

Associated Press

A worker in a hazardous materials suit takes the temperature of a truck driver at a checkpoint in Huaibei in central China's Anhui Province, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. China on Monday expanded sweeping efforts to contain a viral disease by extending the Lunar New Year holiday to keep the public at home and avoid spreading infection as the death toll rose to 80. (Chinatopix via AP)

UN health chief visits China to help with virus containment

Associated Press

A policeman uses a digital thermometer to take a driver's temperature at a checkpoint at a highway toll gate in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. China closed off a city of more than 11 million people Thursday in an unprecedented effort to try to contain a deadly new viral illness that has sickened hundreds and spread to other cities and countries amid the Lunar New Year travel rush. (Chinatopix via AP)

UN agency: China virus ‘too early’ for emergency declaration

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

Passengers wear masks as they arrive at Manila's international airport, Philippines, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. The government is closely monitoring arrival of passengers as a new coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China has infected hundreds and caused deaths in that area. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

WHO decides to not declare coronavirus a global health emergency, says too early in outbreak

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, photo, a worker monitors display screens for infrared thermometers as they check travelers at Hankou Railway Station in Wuhan in southern China's Hubei province. The U.S. on Tuesday reported its first case of a new and potentially deadly virus circulating in China, saying a Washington state resident who returned last week from the outbreak's epicenter was hospitalized near Seattle. (Chinatopix via AP)

Chinese city stops outbound flights, trains to fight virus

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

WHO sees tobacco drop among men, but vaping effects unclear

By MIKE STOBBE - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Wednesday, June 19, 2019, Clara Massons holds her two years old son Jaume at her home in Barcelona, Spain. Outdated medical practices related to childbirth that continue to be used despite evidence they cause harm have come under increasing scrutiny in Europe. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Outdated, dangerous childbirth practices persist in Europe

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

This cover image released by Interscope Records shows &quot;Who,&quot; by The Who. (Interscope via AP)

Review: Townshend, Daltrey return to The Who’s rocking ways

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 30, 2018 file photo, a healthcare worker from the World Health Organization prepares vaccines to give to front line aid workers, in Mbandaka, Congo. The vaccine alliance GAVI has announced on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019 it would invest $178 million to create a global stockpile of about 500,000 Ebola vaccines, in a move health officials say could help prevent future outbreaks from spiraling out of control. GAVI is a public-private partnership that includes the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Bank, among others. (AP Photo/(AP Photo/Sam Mednick, file)

Vaccine group announces creation of Ebola vaccine stockpile

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019 photo, a memorial plaque for eleven concertgoers killed at a 1979 concert stands between Great American Ballpark and Heritage Bank Arena, in Cincinnati. Tragedy four decades ago linked the British rock band The Who to a small suburban city in Ohio. In recent years, members of the community and the band have bonded through a project to memorialize the three teens from Finneytown who were killed in a frantic stampede of people trying to get into The Who’s Dec. 3, 1979, Cincinnati concert. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Rock tragedy: Music superstars, small suburb forever linked

By DAN SEWELL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 3, 1979 file photo, a security guard and an unidentified man look at an area where several people were killed as they were caught in a surging crowd entering Cincinnati's riverfront coliseum for a concert by the British rock band The Who. (AP Photo/Brian Horton, File)

AP Was There: Coverage of The Who concert where 11 died

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 16, 2019 file photo, health workers dressed in protective gear begin their shift at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo DRC. The World Health Organization said Friday Nov. 22, 2019, there has been “a very dangerous and alarming development” in efforts to end the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo, warning that the eruption of violence may re-ignite the epidemic. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Rebel attacks in eastern Congo kill several Ebola responders

By AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO and CARA ANNA - Associated Press

UN: Measles cases spike in numerous outbreaks worldwide

Associated Press