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De nyeste testresultatene viser at 35 av mannskapet og 9 av passasjerene som har vært på de to seilasene med Hurtigruten er smittet.

Polen blir likevel trolig fortsatt grønt mens Frankrike kan bli rødt når FHI leverer sine vurderinger om smittesituasjonen i Europa mot slutten av uka.

Foreløpige testresultater viser at 34 av mannskapet og 5 av passasjerene på de to seilasene med Hurtigruten er smittet.

Det har den siste tiden vært økt koronasmitte i Sveits og Tsjekkia, og trenden er økende også i Polen. FHI anbefaler at Sveits og Tsjekkia blir «røde», og […]

36 av mannskapet og 3 av passasjerene på de to seilasene med Hurtigruten er så langt smittet.

The Emergency Committee on COVID-19, convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR), held its fourth meeting on 31 July. In its statement following the […]

The fourth meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) took […]

FHI har varslet 69 kommuner om å følge opp i underkant av 400 passasjerer fra de to seilasene med MS Roald Amundsen som er berørt av koronasmitte.

Folkehelseinstituttet bistår i smittesporingen på Hurtigruten. Smittesporingen gjelder to seilaser. Passasjerer på begge seilasene må i karantene.

The theme of World Breastfeeding Week 2020 is “Support breastfeeding for a healthier planet”. In line with this theme, WHO and UNICEF are calling on governments to protect and promote […]

På grunn av økningen av smitte i Belgia den siste tiden har regjeringen nå besluttet å endre landets status fra grønt til rødt.

WHO takes this opportunity to remind Member States that are Parties to the WHO Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (FCTC) of their obligations under the Convention. Heated tobacco products are […]

The second edition provides an improved basis for policy debate and informed decision-making at a critical time for global health.

During the second quarter of 2020, the INFOSAN Secretariat has been involved in 29 food safety incidents with 59 WHO Member States and two territories of WHO Member States. There were 13 biological […]

WHO and the Stop TB Partnership’s New Diagnostics Working Group (NDWG) launched today a framework for the evaluation of new tests for tuberculosis infection. The document provides details on […]

Spredningen av koronavirus er fortsatt lav i Norge. Samtidig har det vært en liten økning i forbindelse med at flere reiser til utlandet, viser ukerapporten for 20.-26. juli fra […]

FHI ble i forrige uke varslet om et tilfelle med den alvorlige nyresykdommen hemolytisk uremisk syndrom (HUS) hos et barn under 2 år bosatt i Oslo kommune. Barnet døde mens det var […]

Det har den siste tiden vært økning av smitte i Belgia. Det betyr at landet kan bli «rødt» i slutten av uka dersom situasjonen ikke endrer seg.

Schoolboy Yangyang was growing weaker by the day. When his symptoms worsened into diarrhoea and abdominal pain, his parents took him to the nearest hospital in Guangxi, southeastern China, where the […]

Snakebite envenoming is a common problem in many parts of the world, but little is known about its magnitude in the Arab countries of the Middle East, where cases are not widely reported. The aim […]

Færre blir nå rammet av smittsomme sykdommer, men det er økte sommertall for flåttbåren borreliose og «magesjau ».

On World Hepatitis Day 2020, WHO is calling for united and stepped-up action to prevent mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B (HBV), a preventable viral infection that attacks the liver and […]

The European Medicines Agency announced today that its human medicines committee provided a positive benefit-risk opinion on the use of the Dapivirine Vaginal Ring (DPV-VR) for HIV prevention. WHO […]

Almost two decades of global work has drastically reduced the number of people at risk of blindness from trachoma from 1.5 billion in 2002 to under 137 million in May 2020 – a 91% decrease. […]

Fra 25. juli går Spania fra grønn til rød status, mens Ungarn går fra rødt til grønt. I Sverige åpnes det opp for fire nye regioner hvor reisende slipper […]

The findings from new estimates, published in The Lancet Global Health, and jointly authored by the Guttmacher Institute and HRP, suggest that over the past 30 years, more women and individuals than […]

Den siste uken var antall meldte tilfeller det laveste som hittil er registrert i Norge - 52 tilfeller. Det har imidlertid vært en liten økning i antallet som er smittet i utlandet.

Launching today, the COVID-19 Law Lab initiative gathers and shares legal documents from over 190 countries across the world to help states establish and implement strong legal frameworks to manage […]

Neurological disorders are the number one cause of disability globally. The five largest contributors are stroke, migraine, dementia, meningitis and epilepsy. Yet, the burden of neurological […]

Eleven New Psychoactive Substances to be considered for international control by 43rd ECDD

Det har den siste tiden vært økning av smitte i nordlige regioner i Spania. Det betyr at Spania kan bli "rødt" i slutten av denne uka dersom det ikke skjer endringer de […]

World Health Organization Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today joined the leadership of Spain, paying homage to those who have lost their lives in the country due to COVID-19, […]

A software application has been developed to make it easier for healthcare workers and the public to get instant, real-time information on the estimated ten neglected tropical diseases of the skin […]

Seventy-five countries submit expressions of interest to COVAX Facility, joining up to 90 further countries which could be supported by the COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC)The COVAX Facility, […]

WHO and UNICEF call for immediate efforts to vaccinate all children as new data shows that, before the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine coverage stalled at 85 per cent for nearly a decade, with 14 million […]

Spredningen av koronavirus er fortsatt lav i Norge. Det viser ukerapporten for 6. - 12. juli fra Folkehelseinstituttet.

Folkehelseinstituttet, Helsedirektoratet og Mattilsynet har laget smittevernråd til virksomheter som tilbyr matservering fra buffet, etter at forbudet mot slik servering er opphevet.

Rome – More people are going hungry, an annual study by the United Nations has found. Tens of millions have joined the ranks of the chronically undernourished over the past five years, and […]

A recently published study conducted between 2011 and 2018 in China, and based on surveillance data in pigs, identified an emerging genotype 4 (G4) reassortant Eurasian avian-like (EA) A(H1N1) swine […]

 Good-quality medicines, given at the right time, can save the lives of pregnant and recently pregnant women and their newborn babies. New evidence synthesis reveals however, that in many […]

GENEVA — A new Access Initiative for Quitting Tobacco aims to help the world's 1.3 billion tobacco users quit. Stopping smoking is more important than ever as evidence reveals that smokers are […]

 India is among the countries most dramatically affected by snakebite and accounts for almost half the total number of annual deaths in the world. Authors of the article entitled ‘Trends […]

Regjeringen har vedtatt hvilke land som unntas for innreisekarantene ved innreise til Norge, fra 15. juli.

Kommunelegene og fylkeslegene kan nå følge med på trender for covid-19, luftveisinfeksjoner og mage-tarm-infeksjoner for sin kommune og andre kommuner og fylker.

While decreasing trends in disease incidence are being observed in Europe overall (12% decrease in 14-day incidence of reported cases between 16 and 30 June), there is still community transmission […]

Since 31 December 2019 and as of 9 June 2020, 7 069 278 cases of COVID-19 have been reported worldwide, including 405 587 deaths. EU/EEA countries and the UK reported 1 444 710 cases (20% of all […]

The WHO Chemical Risk Assessment Network was recently joined by new institutions. As of 1 July 2020 the WHO Chemical Risk Assessment Network counts 90 institutions participating from 53 Member […]

Several countries affected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic recently reported cases of children that were hospitalised in intensive care due to a rare paediatric inflammatory […]

Since 31 December 2019 and as of 22 April 2020, approximately 2.5 million (2 524 812) cases of COVID-19 have been reported worldwide and 177 780 deaths. Of these, 988 241 cases were reported by […]