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World Health Organization

United Nations agency concerned with international public health

36 dated entries naming World Health Organization, drawn from 22 separate years between 1948 CE and 2024 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1948April 7– The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.source
  • 1948June 24 – The first World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization is held in Geneva.source
  • 195020 February – Romania withdraws from the World Health Organization.source
  • 19731 August – The 25th anniversary of the World Health Organization (WHO) was celebrated.source
  • 1977October 26 – The last natural smallpox case is discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, a great success of vaccination and, by extension, of modern science.source
  • 1979October 26 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is announced by the World Health Organization, making smallpox the first of only two human diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other).source
  • 1980May 8 – Global eradication of smallpox certified by the World Health Organization.source
  • 1990May 17 – The World Health Organization removes homosexuality from its list of diseases.source
  • 1993April 23 – The World Health Organization declares tuberculosis a global emergency.source

21st century

  • 2003March 12 – The World Health Organization issues a global alert on SARS when it spreads to Hong Kong and Vietnam after originating in Mainland China.source
  • 2003May 21 – The World Health Organization adopts its first treaty, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.source
  • 2010August 10 – The World Health Organization declares the H1N1 influenza pandemic over, saying worldwide flu activity has returned to typical seasonal patterns.source
  • 2012September 22 – The United Kingdom informs the World Health Organization about a novel coronavirus case originating from Saudi Arabia.source
  • 2013May 15 – The World Health Organization names the novel coronavirus Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).source
  • 2014May 5 – The World Health Organization identifies the spread of poliomyelitis in at least 10 countries as a major worldwide health emergency.source
  • 2014May 29 - Medical teams from the World Health Organization and Doctors Without Borders arrive in Sierra Leone to deal with an outbreak of Ebola virus.source
  • 2014August 8 – The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the Ebola outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.source
  • 2015April 29 – The World Health Organization (WHO) declares that rubella has been eradicated from the Americas.source
  • 201529 December: For the first time since March 2014, Guinea is declared free from Ebola virus transmissions by the World Health Organization.source
  • 2016January 28 – The World Health Organization announces an outbreak of the Zika virus.source
  • 2017June 25 – The World Health Organization estimates that the 2016–17 Yemen cholera outbreak has over 200,000 cases.source
  • 201725 June – The World Health Organization estimates that Yemen has more than 200,000 cases of Cholera.source
  • 2019July 17 – The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the Kivu Ebola epidemic to be a public health emergency of international concern.source
  • 201928 November – The United Nations blames anti-vaccination messages for the current outbreak of measles in the country, where the death toll has risen to 39 and is expected to rise as 200 are reported hospitalised, according to the World Health Organization. Total cases now soar to near 3,000.source
  • 20195 December – The deadly measles epidemic in Samoa has led to the United Nations' World Health Organization to deploy 128 medical teams to assist in vaccination efforts. The UN's Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) allocated $2.7 million to support the response.source
  • 2020April 14 – U.S. president Donald Trump announces that the U.S. will suspend funding towards the World Health Organization (WHO) pending an investigation of its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and its relationship with China.source
  • 2020June 1 – Kivu Ebola epidemic: The World Health Organization reports six new cases of Ebola, and UNICEF reports five deaths, in a renewed outbreak of the disease in Mbandaka, Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.source
  • 2021February 9 – COVID-19 pandemic: A joint WHO–China investigation into the source of the outbreak concludes. Investigators deem a Wuhan laboratory leak to be "extremely unlikely", with a "natural reservoir" in bats being a more likely origin.source
  • 2021October 6 – The World Health Organization endorses the first malaria vaccine.source
  • 2021November 26 – COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization convenes an emergency meeting in Geneva amid concerns over Omicron, a highly mutated variant of COVID-19 first identified in South Africa that appears more infectious than Delta.source
  • 202224 March – The World Health Organization announces that a polio vaccination campaign will begin in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia.source
  • 2022May 20 – 2022 monkeypox outbreak: The World Health Organization (WHO) holds an emergency meeting to discuss the spread of monkeypox in nearly a dozen countries, as the number of reported cases reaches 100.source
  • 2022July 23 – The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the recent monkeypox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, as the number of reported cases exceeds 17,000 in 75 countries.source
  • 2023May 5 – The World Health Organization ends its declaration of COVID-19 being a global health emergency, but continues to refer to it as a pandemic.source
  • 2023May 11 – The World Health Organization ends its declaration of mpox being a global health emergency.source
  • 2024August 14 – The World Health Organization (WHO) declares mpox a public health emergency of international concern for the second time in two years, following the spread of the virus in African countries.source

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