[About 60 lakh teenage girls aged 15 to 19 give birth annually in South East Asia, including India, highlighting the link between adolescent pregnancy and child marriage. Saima Wazed, WHO Regional Director for SE Asia, emphasized significant health and gender challenges at a regional dialogue in Kathmandu.]
Saima Wazed, WHO Regional Director, highlighted the severe global health risks from unsafe food, affecting 1.6 million daily, including many children under 5. On World Food Safety Day, she emphasized the need for effective national response plans and proactive roles by governments, producers, and consumers to combat these issues.
The 10 countries are China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Philippines and the Russian Federation.
This amounts to an increase of 26 per cent compared to cases in October, the WHO said in its latest monthly update.
In the latest epidemiological update on Friday, the UN health body reported over 850,000 new cases worldwide in the 28-day period from November 20 to December 17.
WHO's decision was prompted by the variant's ability to spread fast among the community. It said the decision was due to the strain's 'rapidly increasing spread'.
After COVID-19, the possible outbreak of Disease-X has now triggered worldwide concerns after the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned about the dreaded disease. In a bid to tackle the possible outbreak, preparations have started in Odisha.
The massive spike is attributed to good recovery in access to and provision of health services in many countries, said the report, featuring data from 192 countries and areas.
So far, 16 health workers have been killed on duty, and the WHO is working to support health workers in Gaza and once again pleading for their safety, Xinhua news agency quoted the world body's spokesperson Christian Lindmeier as saying at a press briefing here.
The assessment of the health impacts of the non-sugar sweetener aspartame were released by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA).
Ghebreyesus also reminded the world that in the face of overlapping crises, "pandemics are far from the only threat we face".
LLMs include ChatGPT, Bard, Bert and others that imitate understanding, processing, and producing human communication.
After three long gruelling years of Covid-19, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday declared that the pandemic is no longer a public health emergency.
XBB.1.16 is a descendent lineage of XBB, a recombinant of two BA.2 descendent lineages. XBB.1.16 was first reported on January 9, this year and designated a variant under monitoring (VUM) on March 22.
Further, they no longer recommend vaccinating healthy children aged six months to 17 years against Covid at all.
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