# world-health-organisation - 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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# world-health-organisation - Monday 13 May, 2013
There have been 33 confirmed cases of human infection since September last year, including 18 deaths.
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# world-health-organisation - 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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# world-health-organisation - Monday 7 January, 2013
A man also passed away from the H1N1 influenza strain in Jordan over the weekend.
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# world-health-organisation - Thursday 22 November, 2012
A New Zealand study has shown that mild brain injury could be more prevalent than previously believed.
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# world-health-organisation - Thursday 11 October, 2012
The newest Global Hunger Index shows the unsustainable use of land, water, and energy are the biggest factors affecting the food security of the most vulnerable people around the world.
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# world-health-organisation - Tuesday 11 September, 2012
Two-thirds of all men over the age of 15 smoke in Indonesia – making them the world’s heaviest smokers.
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# world-health-organisation - 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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# world-health-organisation - Tuesday 7 August, 2012
“The Syrian people and their government are determined to purge the country of terrorists and to fight the terrorists without respite,” Assad said in a televised address.
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# world-health-organisation - 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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# world-health-organisation - 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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# world-health-organisation - 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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# world-health-organisation - 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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# world-health-organisation - 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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# world-health-organisation - Monday 13 February, 2012
Those who are more optimistic about their health could enhance their life expectancy – while their more negative counterparts may die earlier.
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# world-health-organisation - Monday 23 January, 2012
The city has joined 90 others worldwide with the official designation.
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# world-health-organisation - 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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# world-health-organisation - Wednesday 4 January, 2012
Many of us are making ourselves sick by the way we choose to live – but complementary medicine can help fix that, argues Avril Ivory.
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# world-health-organisation - 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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# world-health-organisation - 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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# world-health-organisation - Monday 29 August, 2011
A mutant strain of the virus has been confirmed in China and Vietnam, and is believed to have been spread by wild bird migration.
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# world-health-organisation - Thursday 11 August, 2011
Research suggests that women who smoke are significantly more likely to suffer heart attacks.
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# world-health-organisation - Friday 3 June, 2011
Why is this strain more deadly than any we’ve seen before? And what can you do to make sure you don’t get it?
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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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Scientists are still unable to determine the origin of the outbreak which the WHO yesterday said was caused by a new strain of E. coli.
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# world-health-organisation - Thursday 2 June, 2011
The World Heath Organisation has officially classified mobiles as “possibly carcinogenic” after a new international study. Here are some simple steps to cut your exposure to the radiation that may be a danger.
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# world-health-organisation - 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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# world-health-organisation - Thursday 7 April, 2011
The World Health Organisation says drug-resistant bugs are developing at a rate that science will struggle to keep up with.
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# world-health-organisation - 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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