World Health Organization

A WHO guideline panel has updated recommendations for monoclonal antibody treatment in its “living” guide on drugs for COVID-19. The guidelines are published in The BMJ.

WHO has issued new global air quality guidelines, updating its previous recommendations that were made 16 years ago.

Long-term air pollution exposure at levels below current U.S., European Union and WHO guidelines was significantly associated with mortality from natural causes, CVD and respiratory disease, according to findings published in The BMJ.

In an unprecedented collaborative move, 220 leading health journals published a joint editorial on climate change, calling on world leaders to take swift action to protect the planet and safeguard public health.

WHO released the first-ever global guidance for countries seeking validated hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus elimination.

The CDC reported that unvaccinated people with a prior COVID-19 infection were more likely to become reinfected than those who were fully vaccinated. It was the top story in infectious disease last week.

HIV is independently associated with a higher risk for severe or critical COVID-19, according to a WHO analysis of more than 15,000 people living with HIV globally.

July 6 is World Zoonoses Day, which is observed each year on the anniversary of Louis Pasteur administering the first rabies vaccine to a human in 1885.

Researchers called for immediate treatment action without restriction among patients with hepatitis C for continued progress in virus elimination following COVID-19, according to a presentation at The Digital International Liver Congress.

Guinea has declared an end to an Ebola outbreak that began 4 months ago and killed 12 people.