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The headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2007.

Climate and health

WHO says six climate and health actions could prevent 1.6 million deaths a year, one in every 40 worldwide

Colourised scanning electron micrograph of Ebola virus particles (in green) budding from an infected cell, in a 2014 image.

Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reaches 9,704 cases and 4,687 deaths, with cases now in Kenya and Nigeria

An Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits dengue, in a macro image taken in 2023. File photo.

Climate and health

Epidemic-level dengue now reaches 292 Brazilian microregions, and Fiocruz calls the spread irreversible

Pope Leo XIV during an audience with members of the media at the Vatican in May 2025.

Vatican confirms lung adenocarcinoma in Pope Leo XIV after part of his right lung is removed

Health workers in personal protective equipment at an Ebola treatment unit run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Liberia in 2014.

Ebola has killed more than 3,700 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the WHO sees the first signs of a retreat

Injectable pens used in obesity treatment, photographed in Brasília on 27 August 2026

Brazil's health ministry promises weight-loss drugs on the SUS, but what exists today is a 250-patient study

Census taker Patrick Emanuel Miranda on his first round of interviews for Brazil's 2022 Census, in downtown Rio de Janeiro

IBGE takes lies about the National Health Survey to the Federal Police and the solicitor general's office

The Moorish Pavilion, Fiocruz's historic building in Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, in 2009

Pandemic lesson

Brazil set to create a permanent health emergency center by year-end

Air traffic at Guarulhos Airport, São Paulo state, on October 21, 2025

Brazil's Health Ministry warns of measles reintroduction risk with World Cup travel