World Health Organization as a means to reduce traffic-related injuries. The WHO has also worked on global initiatives in surgery, including emergency and essential surgical care, trauma care, and safe surgery. The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist is in current use worldwide in the effort to improve patient safety. The World Health Organization's primary objective in natural and man-made emergencies is to coordinate with member states and other stakeholders to "reduce avoidable loss of life and the burden of disease and disability." On 5 May 2014, WHO announced that the spread of polio was a world health emergency – outbreaks of the disease in
Mumps outbreaks in the 21st century to low vaccination rates in Iowa's youth, coupled with the close quarters in dormitories, classrooms and cafeterias. According to Canadian media reports, there may be something novel about this mumps strain which indicates a standard MMR-series vaccination is not 95% effective, as was thought. 8 March 2017: Southeast Missouri State University has confirmed 29 cases of the mumps. The Louisiana Office of Public Health reported about 50 cases of mumps in the Dallas area. In 2014, there were 18,535 cases of mumps, while in 2015, there were 1143 cases. Mumps outbreaks in the 21st century Mumps outbreaks in the 21st