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Patient held in isolation in Soroka Hospital tests negative for Ebola after returning from DRC

The Health Ministry emphasized that currently there have been no confirmed cases of Ebola in Israel. 

Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, southern Israel, March 30, 2026.
Pictorial warnings on cigarette packaging, now required by law.

Israeli law mandating graphic warning images on all smoking products takes effect

A health worker takes the temperature of a woman passing through the Kanyaruchinya checkpoint, as authorities and aid agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain, in the northern entry into the city of Goma, North Kivu province, the Democratic Republic

WHO: Ebola outbreak in Congo still in 'expansion phase,' transmission fulled by population movement

People look at burned-down buildings after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Venezuela and other regions in the Caribbean on June 30, 2026 in Caracas, Venezuela.

Silence in the rubble: Inside the desperate race for Venezuela earthquake survivors


Israel to host WHO European regional conference for the first time

During the conference, Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz will sign cooperation agreements in the field of health with Germany, Croatia, Cyprus and Kazakhstan.

A logo is pictured outside a building of the World Health Organization (WHO) during an executive board meeting on update on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Geneva, Switzerland, April 6, 2021.

Oxford malaria vaccine data bodes well for effort to fight disease

Oxford says its vaccine, called R21/Matrix-M, is likely more effective than Mosquirix in preventing the disease that kills about 600,000 a year.

 Worker Solomon Conteh dissects a mosquito at Sanaria Inc. facility in Rockville, Maryland, October 26, 2007.

How do sugar substitutes affect the human body? You may be surprised

Weizmann Institute research: Sweetness may come at a price and change your glucose metabolism

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WHO may rename monkeypox - here's why

Its guidelines recommend avoiding animal names or geographic regions. The novel coronavirus and its variants were renamed for this reason.

 An electron microscopic (EM) image shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virus particles as well as crescents and spherical particles of immature virions, obtained from a clinical human skin sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak in this undated image obtained by Reuters on May 18, 2022

Do graphic cigarette warning labels really work? - study

Although graphic warning labels on cigarette packs increase pack-hiding behavior among smokers, they do not necessarily stop people from smoking.

Illustration of cigarettes in an ashtray.

Disease experts call on WHO, governments for more action on monkeypox

The WHO is considering whether the monkeypox outbreak should be assessed as a potential public health emergency of international concern.

Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO), attends a news conference at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland May 3, 2019

WHO working on more monkeypox guidance as cases rise

The outbreak in 11 countries where it is not endemic is highly unusual, according to scientists. More than 100 confirmed or suspected cases have been reported, most of them in Europe.

 The WHO logo is pictured in Geneva

WHO calls emergency meeting as monkeypox cases cross 100 in Europe

In what Germany calls the largest outbreak in Europe ever, Monkeypox cases have been reported in at least eight European countries, and the WHO is convening

A logo is pictured at the World Health Organization (WHO) building in Geneva, Switzerland, February 2, 2020.

WHO, CDC express concern of possible undetected monkeypox spread in UK

The WHO did not recommend any restrictions for travel to and trade with the United Kingdom based on available information at this time.

 : A general view of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta

World in no better place to fight pandemics than before COVID - WHO

The panel called for a high-level meeting at the UN General Assembly and independent health threats council led by heads of state to galvanize action.  

A logo is pictured at the World Health Organization (WHO) building in Geneva, Switzerland, February 2, 2020.