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Five years after COVID-19 exposed the vulnerabilities of the global health system, the world may still be dangerously unprepared for the next pandemic. That was the central message delivered by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), during the closing session of the 79th World Health Assembly. His warning was blunt: without agreement on the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) annex, the global community cannot honestly claim readiness for future health emergencies.…

The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has disclosed that 600 suspected Ebola cases and 139 suspected deaths have been recorded in the latest outbreak of the virus. Speaking on Wednesday, Tedros warned that the figures could increase because the outbreak had been spreading for some time before health authorities detected it. According to Reuters, the WHO Emergency Committee met in Geneva on Tuesday and concluded that the outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola constitutes…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an international public health emergency following the outbreak of a new Ebola strain spreading across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and neighboring Uganda. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the emergency alert on Saturday, describing the outbreak as a “public health emergency of international concern” amid fears that the actual number of infections could be far higher than officially reported. Health authorities in the DRC have so far…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the world is facing growing pandemic threats, saying global investments in preparedness are failing to keep pace with increasingly frequent and severe disease outbreaks. In a statement released on Monday, experts monitoring global preparedness said infectious disease outbreaks were becoming more common and more damaging, with widening health, economic, political and social consequences weakening countries’ ability to recover from major emergencies. The statement noted…