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In this Help Net Security interview, Flavio Aggio, CISO at the World Health Organization (WHO), explains how the organization prepares for and responds to cyber threats during global health emergencies. These crises often lead to an increase in phishin… Continue reading World Health Organization CISO on securing global health emergencies
The relationship between mobile phone use and an increased risk of brain cancer is a debate that’s been around almost as long as mobile phones themselves. A huge study from the WHO that’s just been released should put the question to rest.Continue Read… Continue reading Do mobile phones cause brain cancer? New study has definitive answers
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research agency has delivered a damning report on powdered mineral talc, calling it “probably” cancer-causing to humans, mainly because of powders being unknowingly contaminated with asbestos.Continue Readin… Continue reading Talc “probably” causes cancer, WHO agency finds
As forecast in June, the cancer-research arm of the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially named the non-sugar sweetener aspartame as possibly carcinogenic to humans.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: World Health Organization, FDA, Cancer,… Continue reading Despite alarm, sweetener still deemed safer than bacon and red meat
Soldiers have seized a biolab containing samples of cholera and the measles in Khartoum. Continue reading ‘High Risk of Biological Hazard’ In Sudan After Fighters Seize Biolab, WHO Says
A new report published in Nature offers the most detailed estimate to date of COVID-19-related deaths. The research found up to the end of 2021 there were likely nearly 15 million deaths associated with COVID around the world. The estimate is three tim… Continue reading WHO estimates nearly 15 million COVID deaths – triple official figures
The World Health Organization has finally decided on a new name for monkeypox. After “months of consultations” the preferred term for this disease will now be “mpox.”Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: World Health Organization, Disease Continue reading WHO officially renames monkeypox to mpox
Following months of calls from global experts, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced it will assign a new disease name to the current strain of monkeypox spreading around the world. Opening the process to public submissions for the first ti… Continue reading Poxy McPox & Bigpox: WHO asks public for new monkeypox names
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the global monkeypox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The outbreak has now spread to 75 countries with more than 16,000 cases officially recorded.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading Monkeypox declared global health emergency, 72 child cases reported
A statement from the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the discovery of two potential cases of Marburg Virus Disease (MBV) in Ghana. Pending further lab work, they could be the first cases of this highly infectious disease ever found in the… Continue reading Infectious and deadly Marburg virus detected in Ghana for the first time