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June 19, 2013
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  • 16/03/2011 | World

    WHO says food contamination affects only surrounding areas

    The risk of the contamination of food products from nuclear radiation in Japan is limited to the specific area surrounding the damaged nuclear plant, according to a source from the World Health Organization (WHO).

  • 31/05/2011 | World

    WHO says cell phone use possibly carcinogenic

    Using a mobile phone may increase the risk of certain types of brain cancer in humans and consumers should consider ways of reducing their exposure, World Health Organization (WHO) cancer experts said today.

  • 04/07/2011 | World

    Evidence 'increasingly against' phone cancer risk

    Despite a recent move to classify mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic, the scientific evidence increasingly points away from a link between their use and brain tumors, according to a new study.

  • 07/07/2011 | World

    WHO urges countries to intensify war against tobacco

    More than a billion people in 19 countries are now covered by laws requiring large, graphic health warnings on tobacco packs but too many countries are still not doing enough to cut smoking rates, the World Health Organization said on today.

  • 14/07/2011 | World

    Flu vaccine production to double by 2015, WHO says

    Global production of seasonal flu vaccine is expected to double to 1.7 billion doses by 2015, with 11 new manufacturers coming onstream in developing countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said.

  • 11/10/2011 | World

    Tuberculosis cases decline for first time ever, WHO says

    The number of people falling ill with tuberculosis declined last year for the first time while the death toll from the disease reached its lowest level in a decade, the World Health Organization said.

  • 12/06/2012 | World

    Diesel exhaust fumes cause cancer, WHO says

    Diesel engine exhaust fumes cause cancer in humans and belong in the same potentially deadly category as asbestos, arsenic and mustard gas, World Health Organisation (WHO) experts said today.

  • 17/04/2013 | World

    WHO says no poultry contact in some China bird flu cases

    The World Health Organization said today that a number of people who have tested positive for a new strain of bird flu in China have had no history of contact with poultry, adding to the mystery about the virus that has killed 16 people to date.

  • 24/04/2013 | World

    WHO says new bird strain is 'one of the most lethal' flu viruses

    A new bird flu strain that has killed 22 people in China is "one of the most lethal" of its kind and transmits more easily to humans than another strain that has killed hundreds since 2003, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert said today.

  • 19/05/2013 | World

    Saudi Arabia has another case of new coronavirus: WHO

    Saudi Arabia has reported another case of infection in a concentrated outbreak of a new strain of a virus that emerged in the Middle East last year and spread into Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

  • 14/06/2013 | World

    Saudi Arabia says one more dead from MERS coronavirus

    One more person has died and two more have fallen ill in Saudi Arabia from the new SARS-like coronavirus, MERS-CoV, the Saudi Health Ministry said.

  • 18/06/2013 | World

    WHO urges tougher food marketing rules to curb childhood obesity

    The marketing of unhealthy foods to children has proven "disastrously effective", driving obesity by using cheap social media channels to promote fat-, salt- and sugar-laden foods, the World Health Organisation's Europe office said.


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