https://www.reuters.com/world/china/biden-raises-concern-over-chinas-covid-response-after-who-questions-data-2023-01-05/ #China defended on Thursday its handling of its raging #COVID19 outbreak after U.S. President Joe Biden voiced concern and the #WorldHealthOrganisation (WHO) said Beijing was under-reporting virus deaths.
#china #COVID19 #WorldHealthOrganisation
Where I come from in communications, the use of the word "tools" is strongly discouraged. Drop it in a press conference and your solutions will be called superficial.
#WorldHealthOrganisation
#Monkeypox is now #mpox, according to the #WorldHealthOrganisation #WHO
https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2022-who-recommends-new-name-for-monkeypox-disease
#monkeypox #mpox #WorldHealthOrganisation #who
"Water samples from the river found chromium and cadmium levels over six times the World Health Organization's recommended maximums, according to a 2020 paper by the Bangladeshi government's River Research Institute. Both elements are used in leather tanning and excessive exposure to either is extremely hazardous to human health: chromium is carcinogenic, and chronic cadmium exposure causes lung damage, kidney disease and premature births."
#FastFashion #Bangladesh #WHO #WorldHealthOrganisation #Environment
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-dead-rivers-bangladesh-garment-driven-economic.html
#Environment #WorldHealthOrganisation #WHO #Bangladesh #fastfashion
"According to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) latest findings, 99 per cent of people live in areas where air pollution exceeds safe levels. The contamination chops an average 2.2 years off global average life expectancy for each person - a combined 17 billion life years."
#airpollution #Pollution #WorldHealthOrganisation #WHO
"Microscopic air pollution caused mostly by burning fossil fuels shortens lives worldwide by more than two years, researchers reported Tuesday. Across South Asia, the average person would live five years longer if levels of fine particulate matter met World Health Organization standards, according to a report from the University of Chicago's Energy Policy Institute."
#Pollution #Airpollution #WHO #WorldHealthOrganisation #Asia #FossilFuels
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-polluted-air-global-life-years.html
#fossilfuels #Asia #WorldHealthOrganisation #WHO #airpollution #Pollution
#TedrosAdhanomGhebreyesus, head of the #WorldHealthOrganisation, accused of #genocide over alleged actions in #Ethiopia:
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/tedros-adhanom-who-genocide-ethiopia/2020/12/14/id/1001390/
#TedrosAdhanomGhebreyesus #WorldHealthOrganisation #genocide #ethiopia