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…

At least 10 farmers from the provinces of Buri Ram, Nakhon Ratchasima and Songkhla have succumbed to melioidosis, sparking a warning from health authorities.…

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) provided an update on local transmission of malaria up to the second week of October, announcing that…

Local media have announced a wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case in a two year-old child from Karachi, and positive WPV1 environmental virus samples have…

Nearly 4,000 people have been diagnosed with scrub typhus this year and authorities admit concern over an increasing number being reported from urban areas.…

An outbreak of measles first reported in the SE department of Ardèche in mid-September was sparked by an unvaccinated returned traveller who had been to Bali…

Two children in the Subang Regency have been reported to be diagnosed with diphtheria. Read more

Cambodia has reported two fatal infections linked to H5N1 avian influenza (H5N1) from two neighbouring provinces. It is not yet confirmed if it is from the…

Following 13,000 new cases of viral conjunctivitis reported in one day, millions of children were asked to stay at home in Punjab. Punjab province has reported…

Two cases of wild polio virus have been reported in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Chad and the Democratic Republic of Congo have reported cases of vaccine-derived…

The Cambodian Ministry of Health has announced a positive confirmed case of Zika virus in a 7 year old girl form the central Kampong Thom province. This is the…

The more than 2,500 dengue fever cases recorded last week has taken this year’s national total to an 8-year high. To date, there have been 13,036 local dengue…