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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday confirmed the first fatal case of human infection with a strain of bird flu known as H5N2 in Mexico. The 59-year-old man with multiple underlying medical conditions had been hospitalized in Mexico City after being infected with the H5N2 virus. He died on April 24 after developing a fever, shortness of breath, diarrhoea, nausea and general malaise, the WHO said in a statement on Wednesday. It is the first laboratory-confirmed case worldwide of human infection with the H5N2 strain of bird flu, also known as avian influenza. It is also the first kn...
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Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) hat den weltweit ersten Todesfall eines Menschen gemeldet, der mit einem im Labor bestätigten Vogelgrippe-Virus A (H5N2) infiziert war. Der Fall sei aus Mexiko gemeldet worden, berichtete die WHO in Genf. Mehrere Laboranalysen hätten den Virustyp bestätigt. Von 2003 bis Mai 2024 waren der WHO aus 23 Ländern insgesamt 463 Todesfälle nach Infektionen mit Vogelgrippeviren gemeldet worden, es handelte sich aber immer um A (H5N1). Infektionen mit Vogelgrippe-Viren sind meldepflichtig. In vielen Ländern werden aber nicht alle Todesfälle mit vogelgrippeähnlichen ...
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Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) ist alarmiert wegen der schon jetzt hohen Zahl von Dengue-Fällen in diesem Jahr. Die Zahl der Infektionen steige schon seit fünf Jahren, aber seit Anfang 2024 sei die Lage auf den amerikanischen Kontinenten besonders besorgniserregend, berichtete die WHO in Genf. Bis April seien von dort mehr als sieben Millionen Fälle gemeldet worden, deutlich mehr als die 4,5 Millionen Fälle im Gesamtjahr 2023. Dengue ist eine virale Krankheit, die in tropischen und subtropischen Klimazonen von Stechmücken übertragen wird und lebensgefährlich sein kann. Sie kann von der ...
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The number of dengue cases worldwide has been increasing over the past five years, with a particularly alarming situation in the Americas this year, according to a new report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday. More than 7 million cases of dengue fever were reported in the Americas up to April this year, significantly exceeding the 4.5 million cases reported in 2023 as a whole, according to the report. "Given the current scale of the dengue outbreaks, the potential risk of further international spread and the complexity of factors impacting transmission, the overall ri...
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World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed regret that no agreement could be reached on a pandemic treaty at the UN body's annual meeting, which started in Geneva on Monday. But he expressed hope on a future agreement. "No one said multilateralism is easy, but there is no other way," Tedros told the World Health Assembly, the WHO's decision-making body. Signing the treaty was to have marked the meeting's highpoint. Negotiators failed to reach a consensus on sensitive subjects such as the distribution of medicines, protective materials and vaccines in ...
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World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed regret that no agreement could be reached on a pandemic treaty at the UN body's annual meeting, which started in Geneva on Monday. But he expressed hope on a future agreement. "No one said multilateralism is easy, but there is no other way," Tedros told the World Health Assembly, the WHO's decision-making body. Signing the treaty was to have marked the meeting's highpoint. Negotiators failed to reach a consensus on sensitive subjects such as the distribution of medicines, protective materials and vaccines in ...
DPA Breaking News
World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed regret that no agreement could be reached on a pandemic treaty at the UN body's annual meeting, which started in Geneva on Monday. But he expressed hope on a future agreement. "No one said multilateralism is easy, but there is no other way," Tedros told the World Health Assembly, the WHO's decision-making body. Signing the treaty was to have marked the meeting's highpoint. Negotiators failed to reach a consensus on sensitive subjects such as the distribution of medicines, protective materials and vaccines in ...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) opened its annual meeting on Monday with government ministers and other top envoys hoping to reinforce global preparedness for the next pandemic. But the most ambitious project, to adopt a pandemic “treaty,” has been shelved for now after more than two years of work failed to produce a draft that countries could unite around by last week. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus insisted it was not a failure, saying the task was "immense" with member states operating on a “very ambitious timeline". He said negotiators underwent sleepless nights, addin...
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The annual meeting of the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO), began in the Swiss city of Geneva on Monday. The 194 member countries plan to establish guidelines for WHO priorities over the next four years, including a plan to eliminate malaria in numerous countries by 2030 and steps to combat the alarming rise in antimicrobial resistance. The planned highlight of the meeting - the ceremonial signing of a WHO pandemic treaty - was cancelled after two years of global negotiations ended last Friday without an agreement. Negotiators failed to rea...
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Der Chef der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, hat das vorläufige Scheitern des geplanten Pandemie-Abkommens bedauert, aber die Hoffnung nicht aufgegeben. Die Länder hätten ihren Willen zur Einigung dokumentiert, sagte er am Montag in Genf zum Auftakt der 77. WHO-Jahresversammlung. «Niemand hat gesagt, dass Multilateralismus einfach ist, aber es ist der einzige Weg», sagte Tedros. Er sei zuversichtlich, dass die 194 Mitgliedsländer sich noch auf ein Abkommen einigen werden. Die Unterzeichnung wäre der Höhepunkt des Treffens gewesen. Umstritten blieb aber bis zuletz...
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