World Health Organization (W.H.O.)

Rep. Chris Smith Plans Congressional Hearing on W.H.O. Pandemic Accord Talks

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) announced on Monday that he will chair a Congressional hearing in the near future on negotiations at the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) to adopt a “pandemic accord,” an international legal document that could bind American public health efforts beholden to the United Nations, potentially eroding sovereignty.

UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 19: Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., prepares for a news conference at t

China Demands U.S. ‘Stop Rehashing’ Coronavirus Lab Leak Theory After Energy Dept. Report

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday dismissed a report from the Wall Street Journal this weekend claiming the U.S.  Department of Energy had concluded the Wuhan coronavirus had begun spreading as the result of a laboratory leak in China, insisting that entertaining the theory is akin to “smearing China” and demanding America “stop politicizing origins-tracing.”

An employee works in a research and development lab of Beijing Applied Biological Technolo

China Predicts Windfall from Selling Monkeypox Test Kits

China-based diagnostic test makers expect to profit considerably from the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) recent decision to declare monkeypox a “public health emergency,” as the W.H.O. requested mass orders of monkeypox testing kits from at least two such manufacturers shortly after the declaration, China’s state-run Global Times reported on Tuesday.

Health workers screen passengers arriving from abroad for Monkeypox symptoms at Anna Inter