VietNamNet Bridge – The Health Ministry organised in Hanoi on August 13 a training course on preventive measures against the deadly virus Ebola which is raging through West Africa for health workers in the north.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has issued its highest level alert in response to the Ebola epidemic as World Health Organisation experts report the epidemic is the worst in the 40-year history of West Africa.

 The head of the World Health Organization and leaders of West African nations affected by the Ebola outbreak are to announce a joint $100m (£59m; 75m euro) response plan.

 Smoking is a big problem in China, the world's largest tobacco consumer, and now the World Health Organization (WHO) wants tobacco warning labels to be more vivid.

 The number of people believed to have been killed by the Ebola virus in Guinea has passed 100, the UN World Health Organization says.

 Around seven million people across the world died as a result of air pollution exposure in 2012, according to a report of World Health Organization (WHO) released on Tuesday.

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On January 15, one day after a Quinvaxem vaccination at a local medical station, a nearly 3-month-old boy in Da Lat died. The Lam Dong Department of Health has stopped Quinvaxem vaccinations in the whole province.

On December 18, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund issued a joint statement confirming that there was no evidence of danger of the 5 in 1 Quinvaxem vaccine in Vietnam and in other countries.

 UN officials on Thursday said that much more is needed to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths a year from malaria while financing has increased substantially and enabled great progress in the fight against the disease.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Chief of the Preventive Medicine Agency – Mr. Nguyen Van Binh – has said that the 5 in 1 vaccine Quivaxem of Korea will be used again in October, after being paused for five months.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has sent samples of the fatal vaccine that killed three newborn babies in Huong Hoa District in the central province of Quang Tri to the World Health Organization (WHO) for testing.

 VietNamNet Bridge - According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the test results for lots of Quinvaxem 5-in-1 vaccine of the Republic of Korea used in Vietnam meet quality standards.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The mortality rate of coronavirus infection is likely to jump to 55 percent, said Tran Dac Phu, Deputy Head of the Health Ministry's Preventive Medicine Department.

VietNamNet Bridge – Following a World Health Organization's warning of the Corona Virus, the Ministry of Health on May 31 sent a dispatch to all hospitals across the country asking to raise awareness of the new virus strain.

 A senior official from the United Nations Children's Fund commissioned with advancing the rights of an estimated 150 million disabled children around the world, has called on the international community

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 France has informed the World Health Organization (WHO) of the second laboratory-confirmed case of infection with the novel coronavirus (nCoV), said the WHO on Sunday.

Chinese studies of a H7N9 bird flu vaccine needs technical support and cooperation from the World Health Organization as well as related professional institutions,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The law on the prevention and control of smoking takes effect on May 1, 2013, according to the Health Ministry.