But its vaccination rate against the virus was around 76 per cent as of 2023, according to the World Health Organization — a dip from previous years and well below the 95 per cent rate experts ...

The Pan American Health Organization says the most affected age groups are children under the age of 5 and adolescents aged ...

Mexico has reported at least 1,520 measles cases as of late May, according to data from the Pan American Health Organization.. Canada reached measles elimination status in 1998, meaning that there ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Members of the World Health Organization voted emphatically in favour of a potentially groundbreaking global treaty on improving pandemic preparedness at the World Health ...

The resolution, adopted on Saturday during the 78th WHA, tasks the World Health Organization's (WHO) director general with developing a 10-year global action plan to tackle rare diseases.

North and South American countries have struggled to maintain the 95% measles vaccination rate needed to prevent outbreaks, said Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, director of the Pan American Health Organization.