President Donald Trump last week issued an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from WHO, but that did not take immediate effect.

The White House has directed the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to cease all collaboration with the World Health Organization.

The directive to the CDC to halt communications with the World Health Organization was imposed to comply with President Trump's executive order.

ATLANTA (AP) — US public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.

In line with Trump's executive order to end all collaboration with the WHO, the CDC has been instructed to end all communications and work with the international public health agency.

The World Health Organization has urged the United State to reconsider its withdrawal from the global health agency. It comes a day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order pulling ...

Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.

U.S. President Donald Trump has used one of the flurry of executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization for the second time in less than five years.

US public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.

Public health experts say the United States’ departure could cripple the WHO’s operations or leave an opening for China to assume greater control over the agency.

Experts have also cautioned that withdrawing from the organization ... the world far less healthy and safe,” said Lawrence Gostin, director of the WHO Collaborating Center on Global Health ...