A mystery illness claims nearly 100 lives in South Sudan, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to deploy a rapid response team to the region.

A senior UN official says about 5 million people in Yemen are just one step away from famine and the diseases that go with it.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned of a critical drinkable water shortage that could affect millions of people in Lebanon.

The Delta variant is upending assumptions about coronavirus disease even as nations loosen restrictions and open their economies, virologists and epidemiologists say.

Dozens of commandos from one of the Israeli regime's special units have reportedly contracted impetigo and were sent home on sick leave.

Iran receives two batches of rare disease drugs from Qatar amid tight supplies because of US sanctions.

Millions of children whose immunizations have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic are now at risk from life-threatening diseases, the UN warns.

A senior Chinese health official rejects allegations that Beijing withheld data from a team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nearly two-thirds of 1.2 million people polled worldwide say humanity faces a climate emergency, a UN survey says.

Prominent Iranian cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi passes away at the age of 85 in a hospital in Tehran.