Health Alerts

Dengue fever transmission continues at a fast pace in Hanoi and new outbreak areas are still being reported. The districts of Hoang Mai, Phu Xuyen and Ha Dong all registered more than 1,500 cases over the past week. Elsewhere, Sri Lanka’s western and Kandy regions have seen an uptick in dengue cases as the national total passed 66,600 for the year. The wet weather is also likely to cause an upswing in diarrhoeal and eye infections. Lastly, the Burkina Faso cities of Ouagadougou and Bobo Dioulasso are at the centre of a deadly dengue epidemic that has so far killed more than 200 people. Read more