# who - Monday 20 May, 2013
‘Influenza viruses constantly reinvent themselves’, says the head of the WHO. ‘No one can predict the future course.’
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# who - Monday 13 May, 2013
There have been 33 confirmed cases of human infection since September last year, including 18 deaths.
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# who - Thursday 2 May, 2013
The virus, known as novel coronavirus, was first detected in mid-2012 and is a cousin of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
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# who - Sunday 7 April, 2013
Every year, the World Health Organisation selects a priority area of global public health concern as the theme for World Health Day. This year’s theme is high blood pressure.
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# who - Tuesday 26 March, 2013
As Ireland notes record-low levels of TB, global experts have warned of an untreatable strain emerging in a number of other countries.
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# who - Monday 10 September, 2012
More than 40 per cent of people surveyed said that undergoing treatment for mental health problem is a sign of personal failure.
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# who - Wednesday 13 June, 2012
The World Health Organisation has said that diesel exhaust fumes are more carcinogenic than second-hand smoke
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# who - Thursday 7 June, 2012
The World Health Organisation has warned of the spread of an untreatable strain of gonorrhoea which could potentially effect millions of people.
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# who - Saturday 12 May, 2012
The Irish company has been chosen by the WHO to promote hand hygiene globally. Thirty-five percent of healthcare facilities are at an inadequate or basic level.
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# who - Tuesday 3 April, 2012
The number of people aged over 60 will outnumber those aged under five for the first time over the next few years.
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# who - Saturday 3 March, 2012
Bodily wellbeing is a neglected subject in schools, writes UCD lecturer Frank Armstrong, even when it is a prime training ground for encouraging healthy lifelong habits.
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# who - Friday 17 February, 2012
Researchers in the US and the Netherlands have developed new H5N1 strains which are more transmissible than the natural version.
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# who - Monday 23 January, 2012
A roundup of the day’s main news – plus any bits and pieces you may have missed…
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The city has joined 90 others worldwide with the official designation.
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# who - Thursday 19 January, 2012
Worldwide one in five pregnancies in 2008 ended in abortion, but study finds that areas with liberal abortion laws had lower rates of abortion.
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# who - Thursday 3 November, 2011
At least 12 people have been killed in the city of Homs today.
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# who - Wednesday 5 October, 2011
The deadly outbreak has been liked to cantaloupe grown on a farm in Colorado.
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# who - Monday 26 September, 2011
Air pollution killed 1.3million people in 2008, according to the World Health Organisation. Here are the globe’s worst offenders…
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# who - Wednesday 14 September, 2011
WHO report says that nine out of ten deaths in Ireland three years ago were caused by noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and respiratory diseases.
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# who - Thursday 11 August, 2011
Research suggests that women who smoke are significantly more likely to suffer heart attacks.
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# who - Wednesday 8 June, 2011
Meanwhile, the search for the source of the contamination continues.
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# who - Friday 3 June, 2011
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
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Nine things you need to know by 9am: Fears over the spread of new forms of deadly MRSA and E.coli bugs; checkout worker takes Tesco to court over lottery row; and Stephen Fry’s suicide fears.
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# who - Thursday 2 June, 2011
The World Health Organisation has said preliminary tests suggest the wave of E.coli infection affecting Europeans has been caused by a new, mutant form of two different E. coli bacteria.
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# who - Tuesday 31 May, 2011
International experts from the cancer-focused arm of the World Health Organisation have designation mobile phones in the same category as the pesticide DDT.
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# who - Wednesday 25 May, 2011
WHO assembly members have put off after the US argued that retaining some stockpiles could help prevent the disease being used as a biological weapon.
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# who - Tuesday 3 May, 2011
First global study on migraine and headache disorders finds that more women than men suffer from headaches.
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# who - Wednesday 27 April, 2011
An Aviva Health Insurance survey of over 20,000 people suggests Irish people spend an average of €2,000 a year on alcohol.
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# who - Tuesday 19 April, 2011
We want to uncover the truth about your bad habits behind the wheel.
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# who - Thursday 10 March, 2011
In today’s Fix: Cabinet plans St Patrick’s Day trips abroad; professor calls on government to consider nuclear power; and Charlie Sheen launches a major lawsuit against Warner Bros studio.
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Review committee says the world is not prepared to respond to a severe outbreak of flu.
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# who - Saturday 12 February, 2011
Diseases and accidents caused by alcohol consumption account for about 4 per cent of all deaths in the world annually, according to latest report from the World Health Organisation.
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# who - Friday 4 February, 2011
Irish men and men from the Czech Republic are the most overweight in Europe.
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# who - Friday 26 November, 2010
First global study confirms that secondhand smoke is a massive killer – and 200,000 of its victims are children.
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