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Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, right, shakes hands with Ezo Etienne, a health worker who recovered from Ebola in Bunia, Congo, Sunday, May 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Ebola survivors note ‘indescribable joy’ while Congo’s confirmed cases near 300

By Justin Kabumba - Associated Press

Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, meets with health workers who recovered from Ebola in Bunia, Congo, Sunday, May 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

WHO chief reports 5 Ebola recoveries as a new treatment center opens in eastern Congo

By Justin Kabumba and Mark Banchereau - Associated Press

Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaks to the media upon his arrival at N'djili International Airport in Kinshasa, Congo, Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi)

WHO chief lands in Congo, saying Ebola outbreak ‘can be stopped’

By Jean-Yves Kamale, Justin Kabumba and Mark Banchereau - Associated Press

WHO chief says Ebola outbreak in Congo is ‘spreading rapidly’ and upgrades risk assessment

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Djakisa Christian, 18, a funeral home manager, sits in front of coffins for sale at his shop in Bunia, Congo, Friday, May 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Congo curtails funeral wakes in Ebola outbreak as WHO upgrades risk assessment

By Justin Kabumba and Monika Pronczuk - Associated Press

A woman wearing a protective mask stands in the corridor of a hospital in Bunia, Congo, Sunday, May 17, 2026. (AP Photo/ Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne)

Congo reports sharp rise in Ebola cases as WHO worries about outbreak’s scale and speed

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A health official uses a thermometer to screen people in front of Kibuli Muslim Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, Saturday, May 16, 2026. (AP Photo/ Hajarah Nalwadda)

WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

A passenger on the the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, MV Hondius, takes a photo of the ship's weighing anchor in Praia, during the voyage to Spain's port of Tenerife, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo)

WHO reassuring Spanish island residents ahead of arrival of hantavirus cruise ship to Tenerife

By Iain Sullivan and Elea Becatoros - Associated Press

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivers his statement during the opening of the 78th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 19, 2025. (Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP)

After U.S. cuts funding, WHO chief defends $2.1B budget request by comparing it with cost of war

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

World Health Organization director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

World Health Organization let China lie, cheat on COVID-19

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Patients and staff sit and walk around in the Doctors Without Borders-run hospital in Bantiu, South Sudan, Monday, June 24,2024. South Sudan's health system suffers, even though the relative peace gives many women easier access to care. The government allocates less than 2% of the national budget to the health ministry. Much of the health system is propped up by aid groups and the international community. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

U.N. official says Sudan’s war has killed at least 20,000 people

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

A health professional shows doses of Monkeypox vaccines at the Edison municipal vaccination centre in Paris Wednesday July 27, 2022. The World Health Organization says the global outbreak of mpox, which initially baffled experts when the smallpox-related disease spread to more than 100 countries last year, is no longer an international emergency, after a dramatic drop in cases in recent months. (Alain Jocard, Pool via AP, File)

Mpox no longer a global emergency, WHO says

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

Commuters wearing face masks ride bicycles along a street in the central business district in Beijing, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. The World Health Organization downgraded its assessment of the coronavirus pandemic on Friday, May 5, 2023, saying it no longer qualifies as a global emergency. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) **FILE**

WHO says COVID emergency is over. So what does that mean?

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021, security personnel clear the way for a convoy of the World Health Organization team to enter the Huanan Seafood Market on the third day of field visit in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. International scientists have examined previously unavailable genetic data from samples collected at a market in China close to where the first human cases of COVID-19 were detected and said they have found suggestions the pandemic originated from animals, not a lab. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market

By Dake Kang and Maria Cheng - Associated Press

Residents wait in line to receive the Ebola vaccine in Beni, Congo DRC on July 13, 2019. A confidential U.N. report into the alleged missteps by senior World Health Organization in the way they handled a sexual misconduct case during an Ebola outbreak in Congo found their response did not violate the agency’s policies because of what some officials described as a “loophole.” The report, which was submitted to the WHO Director-General on Jan. 2023, and was not released publicly, was obtained by the Associated Press. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

‘Loophole’ excuses WHO officials accused of misconduct

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

U.S. Loyce Pace, Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is seen during the 75th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 24, 2022. The State Department’s top official on health affairs urged the World Health Organization to address allegations reported by The Associated Press that one of its doctors repeatedly engaged in sexual misconduct. “There are many of us who stand with survivors and stand with those who identify as victims and are truly committed, but also frustrated by where things have stood to date," Loyce Pace told a meeting of the WHO's Executive Board on Tuesday. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Top U.S. official urges WHO to address sexual misconduct

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

World Health Organization Regional Director for Western Pacific Takeshi Kasai addresses the media at the start of the five-day annual session Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, in Manila, Philippines. Kasai has been indefinitely removed from his post, according to internal correspondence Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

WHO director in Asia accused of racism, abuse put on leave

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

FILE - The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a media conference at an EU Africa summit in Brussels on Feb. 18, 2022 .The head of the World Health Organization criticized the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling that guaranteed women a constitutional right to abortion, calling it “a setback” that would ultimately cost women's lives.(Johanna Geron/Pool Photo via AP, File)

WHO chief: U.S. abortion ruling ‘a setback,’ will cost lives

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This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. WHO's top monkeypox expert Dr. Rosamund Lewis said she doesn’t expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns about the disease, including how exactly it’s spreading and whether the suspension of mass smallpox immunization decades ago may somehow be speeding its transmission. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)

WHO convenes experts to decide if monkeypox is an emergency

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a media conference at an EU Africa summit in Brussels on Feb. 18, 2022. Ghebreyesus, is expected to be confirmed by the U.N. health agency's member countries for a second five-year term on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 after no other candidate challenged him for the post amid the ongoing difficulties of responding to the devastating coronavirus pandemic. (Johanna Geron, Pool Photo via AP, File)

WHO chief Tedros reappointed to second five-year term

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press