Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) introduced a bill on Tuesday, co-sponsored by 13 Republicans in the House of Representatives, that would ensure that the White House must recognize any World Health Organization (W.H.O.) binding international instrument on pandemics as a treaty, thus requiring Senate approval.
Former President Donald Trump laid out two bold policy initiatives Saturday in the wake of reported U.S. intelligence that suggested the coronavirus originated from a lab in Wuhan, China.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is rejecting the globalist effort to rope in the U.S. into a World Health Organization (W.H.O.) “Pandemic Accord,” asserting that U.S. citizens will live under the laws according to the Constitution and representatives they elect — not globalists.
The Chinese Communist government erupted in fury on Tuesday over discussion of the probable origin of the coronavirus at the virus laboratory in Wuhan, China.
President Joe Biden’s envoy to World Health Organization (W.H.O.) negotiations on the creation of an international agreement on pandemics, Pamela Hamamoto, assured the global body in remarks on Monday that, under Biden, America “is committed to the Pandemic Accord” and hopes it will government such emergencies “for generations to come.”
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday dismissed a report from the Wall Street Journal this weekend claiming the U.S. Department of Energy had concluded the Wuhan coronavirus had begun spreading as the result of a laboratory leak in China, insisting that entertaining the theory is akin to “smearing China” and demanding America “stop politicizing origins-tracing.”
Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) directed a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OPEA) asserting it “does not appear that” the agencies or Norfolk Southern are monitoring for dioxins in East Palestine, Ohio.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Tuesday announced it has suspended its investigations into the origin of the Wuhan coronavirus, ostensibly due to “data collection issues,” but W.H.O. epidemiologist Dr. Maria van Kerkhove admitted it was mostly a matter of the Chinese Communist Party defeating the probe.
The confirmed death toll from Monday’s earthquakes in Turkey and Syria passed 19,000 on Thursday.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced on Monday it would renew the status of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), acknowledging the pandemic is at a “transition point” but noting a “substantial decrease” in government data on the spread of the virus.
The coronavirus epidemic remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief warned Monday, telling the world to keep getting vaccinated and boosted, use antivirals, and follow directions from the Switzerland-based instrumentality.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Monday called for “immediate and coordinated action” after more than 300 children in seven countries were killed by contaminated cough syrup last year.
Chinese Communist Party propagandists on Monday rushed to embrace the spirit of the World Economic Forum (WEF), held annually in Davos, Switzerland.
Chinese officials on Tuesday confidently assured a nervous global audience that the “peak” of the massive omicron outbreak has passed.
China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday boasted that Chinese manufacturers are “going all-out” to manufacture ventilators for coronavirus patients – an odd boast since the Chinese government’s official position is that the coronavirus strains sweeping the country are mild and almost no one is growing seriously ill or dying.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) group tasked with tracking Chinese coronavirus variants suggested Wednesday state actors should “conduct independent and comparative analyses” in addition to using data coming out of China regarding the ongoing catastrophic spread of the disease in that country.
The government of Morocco on Sunday became the first country to ban travelers from China outright as a massive wave of Chinese coronavirus sweeps across that country.
The Health Ministry of Uzbekistan on Wednesday blamed a cough syrup called Doc-1 Max, produced by a company in India called Marion Biotech, for the deaths of at least 18 children. Marion Biotech said it has halted production of the suspect medicine and is awaiting the results of an official inquiry.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced Tuesday that Japan will tighten border controls for COVID-19 by requiring tests for all visitors from China starting Friday as a temporary emergency measure against the surging infections there.
The British analytics company Airfinity published a report this week estimating that about 5,000 people were dying in China a day as a result of Chinese coronavirus infections – a significantly higher number than the seven Chinese government officials admitted to all week.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared on Wednesday that he is “very concerned” about the coronavirus situation in China, where the Communist Party lifted some of its draconian lockdown measures with seemingly minimal preparation, resulting in large numbers of infections and potential deaths.
The Conversation Africa on Wednesday reported on a disturbing trend in Kenya: a spike in the number of female genital mutilations (FGM) performed during the long winter holiday season, which this year runs from November to January.
Chinese social media users are smuggling out videos of bodies piling up in hospital morgues this week as the Wuhan coronavirus allegedly sweeps the country, while the Chinese Communist regime is dispatching police to secure crematoriums in a losing battle to conceal the number of fatalities.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus revealed on Wednesday that he had received notice that his uncle in Ethiopia had been “murdered” in a massacre that resulted in the deaths of at least 50 other people in his village.
A spokesperson for the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) warned the Chinese Communist Party on Tuesday that abruptly ending Chinese coronavirus lockdown restrictions would be “really, really hard,” advising against sudden lockdowns in general because they are difficult to end.
Front Page Africa on Thursday described a new wrinkle in Liberia’s ongoing struggle with female genital mutilation (FGM): “traditional leaders” of tribal communities who saw an opportunity to abduct children and demand ransoms to release them without mutilation.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has dismissed the term monkeypox as inherently racist, decreeing “mpox” should be used instead when referring to the virus as a way of sparing the feelings and easing the stigma of those enduring an attack.
Indian government officials joined pharmaceutical giant Bharat Biotech on Thursday to deny reports that Bharat’s indigenously-developed Chinese coronavirus vaccine, Covaxin, is being rushed to market under intense political pressure.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters this week that the number of documented Chinese coronavirus deaths dropped nearly 90 percent between February and November of this year.
Ugandan Health Minister Ruth Jane Aceng said on Monday that 14 cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the capital city of Kampala and its surrounding area during the previous 48 hours. Nine of the new patients were people who were in close contact with one of the 44 fatalities in the current outbreak.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) published a lengthy report this week on the importance of physical activity in keeping the world healthy, concluding that sedentary lifestyles are responsible for as much as $27 billion in needless healthcare costs a year and urging governments to implement coherent national policies to promote exercise, including “mass” events.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday wrote a letter to the U.N. Security Council proposing the creation of an international “rapid action force” to help police in Haiti combat the gangs that have taken over critical infrastructure and blocked humanitarian aid.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Thursday implemented Ebola testing for travelers who have visited Uganda within the past 21 days.
Multiple nations that maintain diplomatic ties with the nation of Taiwan – which precludes them from establishing a relationship with communist China, as per Beijing’s protocol – have used the United Nations General Assembly this week to demand that the U.N. include Taiwan as a full member.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sounded his most optimistic note since the beginning of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic this week, telling reporters “the end is in sight.”
Ethiopia’s civil war between the federal government and the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is not the only deadly ethnic conflict raging in that turbulent country. On Friday, residents of the Oromiya region reported digging mass graves for at least 42 villagers slaughtered by a rival tribal militia.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that the Chinese coronavirus pandemic demonstrated that the world needs a “stronger” and more “empowered” organization.
The director-general of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, accused heads of state on Wednesday of racism for failing to address the ongoing “manmade” humanitarian disaster in his native Ethiopia, saying that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is getting more attention due to the skin color of Ethiopians.
The World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) confirmed Wednesday a dog has been infected with monkeypox through contact with its owner.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under President Donald Trump, warns the spread of monkeypox could become the United States’ next public health failure.
