Top Biden aide Ron Klain expected to soon leave White … REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — White House chief of staff Ron Klain, who has spent more than two years as President Joe Biden’s top aide, is preparing to leave his job in the coming weeks, according to a person familiar with Klain’s plans. Klain’s expected departure comes not long after the White House and Democrats […]
AP: WHO knew of past sex misconduct claim against … LONDON (AP) — When a doctor tweeted that she was “sexually assaulted” by a World Health Organization staffer at a Berlin conference in October, the U.N. agency’s director-general assured her that WHO had “zero tolerance” for such misconduct. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus replied to her, saying he was “horrified” by the accusations of groping […]
Fauci to step down after decades as top US infection … WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert who became a household name — and the subject of partisan attacks — during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he will leave the federal government in December after more than five decades. Fauci directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is […]
Loved or hated, Fauci’s parting advice: Stick to … WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before the bobbleheads and the “Fauci ouchie,” Dr. Anthony Fauci was a straight-shooter about scary diseases — and “stick with the science” remains his mantra. Fauci steps down from a five-decade career in public service at the end of the month, one shaped by the HIV pandemic early on and the […]
WHO director in Asia accused of racism, abuse put … LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization’s top director in the Western Pacific, Dr. Takeshi Kasai, has been indefinitely removed from his post, according to internal correspondence obtained by The Associated Press. Kasai’s removal comes months after an AP investigation revealed that dozens of staffers accused him of racist, abusive and unethical behavior that undermined […]
UNAIDS chief says behavior of ex-staffer was ‘unacceptable’ LONDON (AP) — The U.N. AIDS agency acknowledged in an internal email last week that the behavior of a former top official toward women was “unacceptable” and was permitted by a culture which allowed misconduct. It was the latest development of a sexual harassment scandal that led the agency’s previous leader to bow out early […]
WHO appoints official to help prevent sexual abuse … GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization has appointed a new official to address the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, following revelations that staffers allegedly traded jobs for sex during a deployment to Congo to fight an Ebola outbreak, the U.N. agency said Friday. Dr. Gaya Gamhewage, a 20-year WHO veteran, will seek to […]
Guinea declares Ebola epidemic, is second country … Traditional funerals in which people wash and touch the body of the deceased facilitate the spread of Ebola. It usually jumps to humans from infected animals, such as bats, and then spreads between humans via direct contact with bodily fluids.
Ebola outbreaks in Africa require ‘swift and overwhelming … As countries in West and Central Africa work to extinguish two unrelated outbreaks of Ebola, President Biden’s administration is vowing to work with the affected countries and international groups to end the spread of the deadly disease as quickly as possible.
Monkeypox in La.: Here’s what LDH says you need to … Louisiana Health Officer Dr. Joseph Kanter said that while monkeypox is not expected to become a pandemic on the level of COVID, the spread of the disease into Louisiana was “only a matter of time.”
World Health Organization declares monkeypox a global … The World Health Organization said the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation that now qualifies as a global emergency.
Increased infectious disease risk likely from climate … Climate change will result in thousands of new viruses spread among animal species by 2070 — and that’s likely to increase the risk of emerging infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans, according to a new study. This is especially true for Africa and Asia, continents that have been hotspots for deadly disease spread from […]