Health Alerts

Late last week, the WHO published a Disease outbreak news post on the chikungunya epidemic centred on the country’s fourth largest city, Abéché, noting that the risk at a national level is moderate in this first outbreak for Chad. The case count listed in the Sept 27 weekly regional bulletin had climbed again to 30,220 (with one death in a young man with a history of sickle cell disease and asthma). And in Cambodia, the chikungunya outbreak continues and is now affecting 21 provinces, however more than three-quarters of the nearly 6,000 cases have been in Preah Vihear, Siem Reap and Takeo. Meanwhile, the ECDC is reporting two other countries which have also registered chikungunya cases since the August update - Brazil and Thailand. The agency’s Sept 20-26 report gives a summary of both dengue fever and chikungunya across the globe. Read More