Category: World Health Organization

WHO Warns Omicron Variant Poses ‘Very High’ Global Risk as First Cases Detected in North America

The World Health Organization (WHO) is warning countries that the Omicron CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus variant poses a “very high” global risk, even as scientists with the body acknowledge little is known yet about the strain. “Omicron has an unprecedented number of spike mutations, some of which are concerning for their potential impact on the trajectory…


WHO Criticizes ‘Heavy Burdens’ Travel Bans Place on Southern African Nations

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday criticized the “heavy burdens” that travel bans place on southern African nations and urged countries across the globe not to impose flight bans unless they are “scientifically based” amid concerns over the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron. In a statement, the public health agency called on countries to “follow science and…


WHO Explains Why It Skipped ‘Xi’ When Naming New COVID-19 Variant Omicron

The World Health Organization (WHO) has explained why it skipped the Greek letters “nu” and “xi” in naming the new COVID-19 variant Omicron. “Two letters were skipped—Nu and Xi—because Nu is too easily confounded with ‘new’ and Xi was not used because it is a common surname and [the] WHO best practices for naming new…


Vaccine Mandates Are Dividing Canadians: Former Judge

The vaccine mandates pushed by the federal and provincial governments have divided Canadians, and the way the unvaccinated are berated is “extremely ugly,” a former judge says. “I would never have thought such a thing could happen in Canada,” said Brian Giesbrecht, who served as a provincial court judge in Manitoba from 1976 to 2007….


New WHO Advisory Group on CCP Virus Origin to Include CCP Scientist

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday said it will form a new advisory group to study the origins of novel pathogens, including the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which caused the global COVID-19 pandemic. The new team, named Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), will be tasked with advising the WHO…


Hearth Site in Utah Desert Reveals Human Tobacco Use 12,300 Years Ago

WASHINGTON—Scientists have unearthed evidence of a milestone in human culture—the earliest-known use of tobacco—in the remnants of a hearth built by early inhabitants of North America’s interior about 12,300 years ago in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert. Researchers discovered four charred seeds of a wild tobacco plant within the hearth contents, along with stone tools…


WHO Recommends World’s First Malaria Vaccine for At-Risk Children

The World Health Organization on Wednesday said it is recommending “widespread use” of a malaria vaccine for children in sub-Saharan Africa and other at-risk regions. The recommendation for the AS01 formulation of the RTS,S vaccine, also known as Mosquirix™, is largely based on results from an ongoing pilot program in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi that followed more than 800,000…


Leaked Documents Reveal Funding Proposal by Daszak’s Organization for Developing COVID-Like Virus

Commentary New documents detail how Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance and China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology were planning to use gain-of-function experiments to artificially insert “human-specific cleavage sites” into coronaviruses in order to increase their ability to infect human cells. The newly released documents, which are part of a funding proposal submitted to the Pentagon’s Defense…


Leaked Documents Reveal Proposal by Daszak’s Organization for Developing COVID-Like Viruses

Commentary New documents detail how Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance and China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology were planning to use gain-of-function experiments to artificially insert “human-specific cleavage sites” into coronaviruses in order to increase their ability to infect human cells. The newly released documents, which are part of a funding proposal submitted to the Pentagon’s Defense…


WHO at Odds With China Over Virus Origins Research

The World Health Organization (WHO) said it hoped that China’s research into the origins of COVID-19 remained “scientific, transparent, urgent and inclusive” on Wednesday. Speaking from Geneva, top WHO official Maria Van Kerkhove said the organization had “heard from Chinese colleagues that studies are underway.” “We would have to ask them specifically what those studies…