The US withdrawal will not officially happen until January 2026, so there will be months of uncertainty over budgets and ...

Chinese researchers have identified a new bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, which binds to the same receptor as the COVID-19 virus ...

CoV-2, was found in horseshoe bats in China and can bind to human cells in the same way as SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind Covid ...

The U.S. is pulling the plug on its membership with the World Health Organization. What does that mean for Illinois?

On this day in 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) named a disease spreading from Wuhan, China COVID-19.

More than half of Americans believe the U.S. benefits from its membership in the WHO. As of April 2024, 25% of U.S. adults say the country benefits a great deal from its membership, while about ...

Pathogens such as the coronavirus can travel around the world at a speed that too often outpaces governments’ ability to detect, treat, cure, and prevent diseases. Even the best-funded health care ...

As part of a rash of executive orders completed on his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump began the ...

The study on the new virus was carried out by leading Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli, who is also known as the “batwoman” as ...

Argentina has announced it will pull out of the World Health Organization (WHO), mirroring a similar move by US President ...

BUENOS AIRES — Argentina's president has ordered the country's withdrawal from the World Health Organization due to “profound differences” with the U.N. agency, a presidential spokesperson said ...

President Donald Trump this month issued an executive order prohibiting discretionary federal funds from going to schools and ...