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The World Health Organization said on 4 June 2026 that unsafe food causes about 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths each year, releasing updated foodborne-disease burden estimates ahead of World Food Safety Day on 7 June.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that responders to the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were "still behind" despite improved testing, with 344 confirmed cases and 60 confirmed deaths reported in the country.
Daraxonrasib nearly doubled median overall survival versus chemotherapy in previously treated metastatic pancreatic cancer in a 500-patient Phase 3 trial presented at ASCO on Sunday and published the same day in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The World Health Organization published an implementation guide on Monday for psychological self-help interventions, setting out how health systems can deliver structured mental health support through digital, print or video formats with limited specialist time.
The World Health Organization said on 17 May 2026 that the Ebola outbreak caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda constitutes a public health emergency of international concern. [1]