There seems to be a severe outbreak of coronavirus in Saudi Arabia. As per the report produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, due to some recent strains of this virus, one man had died and two others are critically ill.

According to WHO, other than these there are four more laboratory-confirmed cases of this infection, the novel coronavirus (NCoV).

France has confirmed the second case of deadly respiratory virus related to Sars. This has led the World Health Organisation (WHO) to raise an alarm that there are chances that the new virus has the capability of passing from person to person.

The World Health Organization is observing `Save Lives: Clean Your Hands' day.  On the day, Public Health Agency (PHA) is encouraging people to maintain hand hygiene.

Hand hygiene is vital to maintain health. Millions of people suffer from infections due to poor hand hygiene, but adoption of simple hand hygiene routine, one can prevent a number of infections.

An emergency program has been launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) to combat most aggressive strain of malaria, which is proving resistant to the standard anti-malarial drug. The move was launched in Phnom Penh on the World Malaria Day.

Seeing the current globalized travel patterns, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said that Singapore has been expecting a H7N9 avian influenza case. The country is quite alert about the virus and has been taking all the possible measures to prevent the virus.

Immunization is a process that makes a person immune or resistant to an infectious disease through a vaccine. Immunization has now protected children against diseases like measles, whooping cough, tetanus and polio with the help of vaccines.

A World Health Organization team will soon be done with its investigation on the spread of bird flu outbreak in Shanghai. The city is considered China's centre hub for bird flu outbreak.

China's Health Ministry has shared that the flu has been found among humans as well.  As many as 102 cases have been registered in Shanghai, Beijing and in other provinces.

A shocking report from WHO has said that there can be rise in TB cases if the improper funding from the bigger organizations fail to deliver their best.

According to a recent report prepared by World Health Organisation (WHO) in lieu of the International Ear Care Day on March 3, today around 360 million people suffer from hearing loss. It says that as far as the older generation is concerned, almost one in three people calculating to a total of 165 million people worldwide, live with hearing loss.

A Japanese physician, Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima, 84, who was the leader of the World Health Organization, has died after a brief illness. He is known for the campaigns that he headed to fight malaria and various contagious diseases.