WHO doctor Carlo Urbani reports the unusual, highly contagious disease to WHO.

* February 26 – A US businessman is diagnosed with the first known case of SARS in Hanoi, Vietnam, by WHO doctor Carlo Urbani.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the WHO advises that only corpses carrying an infectious disease strictly require burial.

On March 12 WHO issues a global alert about a new infectious disease of unknown origin in both Vietnam and Hong Kong.

* 1990 – The General Assembly of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.

Other diseases that spread more slowly, but are still considered to be global health emergencies by the WHO, include:

* Diet, Nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases by a Joint WHO / FAO Expert consultation ( 2003 )

AFMC acts as a referral centre, designated by WHO for certain diseases i. e. HIV-regional laboratory and centre for rickettsial diseases.

According to a 2007 World Health Organization ( WHO ) report, 1. 1 billion people lack access to an improved drinking water supply, 88 percent of the 4 billion annual cases of diarrheal disease are attributed to unsafe water and inadequate sanitation and hygiene, and 1. 8 million people die from diarrheal diseases each year.

Prevention and treatment of chronic diseases declared by the World Health Organization ( WHO ), as a priority project for the second decade of the 20th century, are meant to better the quality of the global population.

* Diet, Nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases ( including dental caries ) by a Joint WHO / FAO Expert consultation ( 2003 ).

Thus, while tobacco related-diseases differ from the communicable diseases that have traditionally been the concern of the WHO, the effects of globalization have made tobacco increasingly relevant for such intergovernmental authorities.

* WHO Group III-Pulmonary hypertension associated with lung diseases and / or hypoxemia

* Diet, Nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases, by a Joint WHO / FAO Expert consultation ( 2003 )

WHO model prescribing information: drugs used in parasitic diseases ( 2nd edition ).

In GAVI ’ s first decade, 288 million children have been immunised against lifethreatening diseases including diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis ( whooping cough ), hepatitis B, Hib and yellow fever, and more than five million future deaths have been prevented ( 2010 WHO estimation ).

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) estimates that nearly 10 million people die from preventable conditions such as diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, tuberculosis, vaccine-preventable diseases, and complications of childbirth.

A team of specialist from the World Health Organization ( WHO ) assembled in 1957 to address the problem of drug addiction and adopted the term “ drug habituation ” to distinguish some drug-use behaviors from drug addiction.

DDT is classified as " moderately toxic " by the United States National Toxicology Program ( NTP ) and " moderately hazardous " by the World Health Organization ( WHO ), based on the rat oral of 113 mg / kg.

A WHO study released in January 2008 found that mass distribution of insecticide-treated mosquito nets and artemisinin – based drugs cut malaria deaths in half in Rwanda and Ethiopia, countries with high malaria burdens.

The WHO estimated that an additional 10 – 20 babies die per 1, 000 deliveries as a result of FGM ; the estimate was based on a 2006 study conducted on 28, 393 women attending delivery wards at 28 obstetric centers in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan.

Interpretation is based on WHO guidelines.

There have been several debates around the results of this WHO exercise, and especially based on the country ranking linked to it, insofar as it appeared to depend mostly on the choice of the retained indicators.

The WHO Classification, published in 2001 and updated in 2008, is the latest classification of lymphoma and is based upon the foundations laid within the " Revised European-American Lymphoma classification " ( REAL ).

This recommendation was established based on the limit of detection of available testing equipment at the time of publication of the WHO water quality guidelines.

A preparation labelled 81 / 541 was distributed by the WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization without official status and given the assigned value of 50 mIU / ampoule based on an earlier collaborative study.

The Joint FAO / WHO expert committee on food additives states that, " based on the information available, it is inadvisable to use carrageenan or processed eucheuma seaweed in infant formulas ".

He left Iraq in 2005 back to the World Health Organization ( WHO ) as Assistant Director General based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Although there is only one serotype of mumps virus, according to recent update by WHO ( June 2012 ), There are currently 12 genotypes A-N, ( namely A, B, C, D, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, N ) excluding ( E and M ) and L-Zagreb vaccine strain comes under genotype N. The typing scheme is based on the sequence of the small hydrophobic ( SH ) gene.

Currently the most commonly used grading schema is based on year 2007 World Health Organization ( WHO ) guidelines.

Classification of meningiomas are based upon the WHO classification system.

Derived classifications are based on the WHO reference classifications ( i. e. ICD and ICF ).

As of 2008, recommendations from the National Osteoporosis Foundation ( NOF ) are based on risk assessments from the World Health Organization ( WHO ) Fracture Risk Assessment Tool ( FRAX ).

WHO established a network of consultants who assisted countries in setting up surveillance and containment activities.

In line with UNAIDS, WHO has set itself the interim task between 2009 and 2015 of reducing the number of those aged 15 – 24 years who are infected by 50 %; reducing new HIV infections in children by 90 %; and reducing HIV-related deaths by 25 %.

In the United Kingdom the professional body is the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering ( educational charity status ) and it is true that the trade still remains virtually ungoverned ; there are no systems in place to monitor or control the activities of unqualified plumbers or those home owners who choose to undertake installation and maintenance works themselves, despite the health and safety issues which arise from such works when they are undertaken incorrectly ; see Health Aspects of Plumbing ( HAP ) published jointly by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) and the World Plumbing Council ( WPC ).

What is recommended by WHO and other sources for malnourished children or adults who also have diarrhea is drinking rehydration solution, continuing to eat, antibiotics, and zinc supplements.

* Nadia Younes ( 1946 – 2003 ), Egyptian national who worked for the UN and the WHO, victim of the Canal Hotel bombing

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) recommends the use of antibiotics in young children who have both bloody diarrhea and fever.

Since 1988 the WHO has presented one or more Awards to organizations or individuals who have made exceptional contributions to reducing tobacco consumption.

* Dr. Bradley Bolton-Co-creator of the WHO computer ; sacrificed life protecting daughter from Paine, who wanted information on WHO

( This despite the actions of United Nations bodies ( i. e. WHO and UNAIDS ), who support these policies.

Not to be deterred, Tierkel, who was off to Europe for a WHO meeting the next day, sent Ruby a telegram from Geneva, asking if she might select a suitable evening that she was free for them to have dinner.

Both the WHO and CDC indicate that circumcision may not reduce HIV transmission from men to women, and that data is lacking for the transmission rate of men who engage in anal sex with a female partner.

The first Director General of the WHO, George Chisholm, who was a psychiatrist, was one of the leaders in forming the federation with the goal of creating a representative organization that could consult with the UN on mental health issues.

Jim Zabel, who joined WHO in 1944, was their play-by-play voice for Hawkeye football and basketball games from 1949 to 1996.

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