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Nexcare Brand Announces the Fifth Annual Nexcare give Program, in Partnership with the American Red Cross and America's Blood Centers
May 08, 2013 | Business Wire

As Bird Flu Spreads, Death Toll Rises in China
April 30, 2013 | Newsy.com

Chinese Bird Flu Transmission, Origin Remain Unclear
April 18, 2013 | Newsy.com

World Health Organization Wikipedia Information

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on 7 April 1948, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health Organization, which had been an agency of the League of Nations.

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Activists worldwide target homophobia in Jamaica, Ukraine and South Africa
May 17, 2013
May 17, 2013 - In Jamaica, some men are labelled as criminals just for expressing their love. Attempts to hold a Pride in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv have...

More than 270 000 pedestrians killed on roads each year
May 02, 2013
GENEVA May 2, 2013 – More than 270 000 pedestrians lose their lives on the world's roads each year accounting for 22% of the total 1.24 million road traffic...

Smart science in the fight against malaria
April 26, 2013
Female anopheles mosquito (file photo) Photo: Wikipedia NAIROBI, 26 April 2013 (IRIN) - Malaria conti...

Food Tank’s 9 Ways We Can All Commemorate UN World Health Day on April 7
April 02, 2013
CHICAGO, IL, April 2, 2013 - This year, World Health Day focuses on high blood pressure, one of the many chronic diseases that are increasingly common around the...

World Health Organization: Diesel Engine Exhaust Carcinogenic
June 13, 2012
LYON, France, June 12, 2012 – After a week-long meeting of international experts, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is part of the...

Antimicrobial resistance poses ‘catastrophic threat’, says UK’s Chief Medical Officer
March 11, 2013
March 11, 2013 - Global action is needed to tackle the catastrophic threat of antimicrobial resistance, which in 20 years could see any one of us dying following...

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H1N1 discovered in marine mammals
May 15, 2013 | UC Davis News
The World Health Organization now considers the H1N1 strain from 2009 to be under control, taking on the behavior of a seasonal virus.'' H1N1 was circulating in humans in 2009...

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Here's how we build a better health- care system
May 21, 2013 | indystar.com
However, our country ranks number one worldwide in health-care spending, and according to the World Health Organization, 36 other developed countries enjoy better health...

New Fatal Virus Infects Two in France, Likely Spreads Person- to- Person
May 12, 2013 | Gawker
After the French health ministry's confirmation of the second infection, the World Health Organization announced that it's likely that the virus can be passed person-to-person...

Thin Air: In The Mountains With Steve Carlton, Armed Conspiracist
May 06, 2013 | Deadspin
Or the World Health Organization. There are so many conspiracies, and so little time. Sometimes all those conspiracies confuse him and he contradicts himself. One minute he...

What happens when you mix global disease and authoritarian governments
May 03, 2013 | Boing Boing
When SARS emerged in China in 2002, the Chinese government tried to cover it up, waiting months to inform the World Health Organization. In fact, the WHO first heard about...

Foodstuffs: Summer sounds return to Jasper
May 01, 2013 | DesMoinesRegister.com
'' Alas, the truth is, the French do get fat,'' says Moranville, citing a 2007 World Health Organization report estimating that about 40 percent of French adults were...

Deadly Texas fertilizer explosion reverberates in Indiana
April 18, 2013 | indystar.com
According to the World Health Organization and the International Programme on Chemical Safety, ammonium nitrate can cause violent combustion or explosion when heated, along with...

World Health Organization on twitter

	WHO: 22 deaths worldwide from coronavirus: GENEVA (AP) — World Health Organization officials said Thursday tha... http://t.co/8IaDk6VMKR Twitter: @Health_Diets
	WHO: Probe into deadly coronavirus delayed by dispute over who owns sample: World Health Organization officials... http://t.co/ueh88opcBA Twitter: @EdmontonCP
	The World Health Organization met and Sanctioned Israel not a word about the piles of dead Syrians or the Refugee Camps! Twitter: @justice4zion
	WHO: 22 deaths worldwide from coronavirus: World Health Organization officials said Thursday that their probe ... http://t.co/pkEYVsasij Twitter: @leohoussoftmabt
	RT @UberFacts: The World Health Organization has declared tanning beds to be as dangerous as mustard gas and arsenic. Twitter: @HoodApostle
	WHO: 22 deaths worldwide from coronavirus: GENEVA (AP) -- World Health Organization officials said Thursda... http://t.co/vEw6OgPkxz Twitter: @jchristenson

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