Health Alerts

Health authorities have announced an increase in mumps cases diagnosed at Harare’s schools and health centres. Sub-optimal vaccination rates over the past year have contributed to the ...

Dengue fever case numbers are now their highest in a decade and the threat of infection will continue during the current typhoon season. Public health experts have called for more prev...

Local media have reported a second wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case this year - a young girl with acute flaccid paralysis from a NW district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. In other ...

An agricultural worker from a remote area near the eastern city of Štip has died of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) just over a week after finding a tick on his abdomen. The CC...

More than 1,600 suspected and confirmed cases of bacterial meningitis and 99 deaths have been reported from the SE region of Zinder. Testing of symptomatic infections were positive for...

Heath authorities in the state of Guanajuato have confirmed the detection of Brucella bacteria in unpasteurised artisanal cheeses sold in Pénjamo after hygiene and food safety checks w...

Dengue fever cases are reporting to be surging, with highest numbers to date in the provinces of Oudomxay, and the capital Vientiane. Almost 17,500 cases have been logged so far this y...

The results of testing performed on sentinel pigs in an arbovirus surveillance program in Kumamoto prefecture have led to a Japanese encephalitis (JE) warning after one animal was foun...

A sixth medical product alert has been issued by the WHO since October last year, relating to contaminated liquid medications used in the management of symptoms of respiratory tract in...

Epidemic dengue fever conditions are rife in seven departments (Comayagua, La Paz, Yoro, Atlantida, Olancho, Copan and Ocotepeque), while alerts have been issued for eight more. The in...

Last week the ECDC reported the first locally-acquired human cases of West Nile virus (WNV) fever in the SW region of Gironde-Nouvelle Aquitaine. In August 2022, positive WNV results w...

While the initial reports of gastrointestinal illnesses stemmed from Dolisie in Niari department, the latest updates reveal the spread of shigellosis, cholera and typhoid fever from th...

According to the Sichuan CDC, there are only a few remaining leishmaniasis-endemic regions in China, however those that are still active are Shanxi, Gansu, Shaanxi, Xinjiang, Sichuan a...

Dengue fever cases usually peak in September following the progress of the monsoon season, but the current death toll of at least 303 is already higher than the 2022 total. Just over h...

The Qld government announced last week that from 2024 it will fund meningococcal meningitis B (MenB) vaccines for infants aged two years and under, and adolescents from 15 to 19 years ...

The cholera outbreak has taken a concerning turn, with Harare province now appearing to be the epicentre after a 35 percent rise in new cases over the week. Deaths also rose 5-fold and...

Despite 10 percent of school age children having no measles vaccinations and 104 locally-acquired cases recorded in the first six months of the year, a governmental risk assessment rep...

Last week, Health Promotions Vanuatu declared a surge in influenza-like illnesses, with ‘increased cases of influenza A H1N1, influenza B, advenovirus, rhinovirus, respiratory syncytia...

Up until a couple of weeks ago, the only place where locally-acquired chikungunya infections had been detected was in the department of Paysandú, in the country’s west. However on May ...