On 2 October 2026, WHO became aware through media reports of the death of an employee of the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute (APRI) of Siberia and the Far East, the Russian Federation. According ...

WHO has released a new guide to support countries in shifting away from institutionalized mental health care models focused on long-term stays in psychiatric hospitals towards person-centred care in ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today released its first guidelines addressing the sharp rise in obesity among children and adolescents, setting out how health systems and health workers can ...

WHO’s latest Global Health Estimates, released on 2 October 2026, provide a picture of how health has changed across ...

To help host countries and event organizers better anticipate and manage heat-related health risks, WHO is releasing a new ...

The 2026 UHC Day campaign launch will give advocates, including civil society and young people, tools and messaging to ...

Cholera deaths increased by 30% in 2025, despite fewer cases being reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2025, ...

This WHO guideline provides practice- and science-informed global clinical and public health recommendations for the integrated management of obesity in adolescents aged 10–19 years, responding to the ...

Since the last Disease Outbreak News was published on 11 September 2026, the Bundibugyo virus outbreak in the Democratic ...

Last Friday, the 2nd of October, the first media reports emerged of a suspected case of pneumonic plague in a laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute in the Russian Federation.