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  • Vaccine Update- vaccine manufacturing plant to be constructed

    Senegal // 10 July, 2021

    COVID-19 vaccines will be manufactured by the Institut Pasteur in Dakar....

    COVID-19

  • Vaccine Update - first doses received from COVAX Facility

    Jordan // 13 March, 2021

    Vaccination at a refugee camp in northern Jordan has begun...

    COVID-19

  • MERS cases in February

    Saudi Arabia // 28 February, 2021

    Cases of MERS in February.

    MERS-CoV

  • Vaccine update - Vaccine campaign ongoing

    Dominica // 17 May, 2021

    Vaccination campaign is underway...

    COVID-19

  • Pandemic impacts on death, life expectancy and birth rates

    19 February, 2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic has had direct impacts on population growth and life expectancy...

    COVID-19

  • New Variant Reported in Japan

    Japan // 19 February, 2021

    Third strain now circulating…

    COVID-19

  • EU Sends Aid to Guinea for Ebola

    Guinea // 19 February, 2021

    More than 500 kits to be shipped…

    Ebola

  • NCDC Issues Public Health Advisory Over Ebola Outbreak in Guinea

    Nigeria // 19 February, 2021

    Risk of transmission to Nigeria assessed as moderate…

    Ebola

  • MERS cases 2 to 8 October

    Saudi Arabia // 03 October, 2017

    The following cases have been reported by the Ministry of Health this week:

    MERS-CoV

  • WHO announces candidate vaccines against pandemic strains

    29 September, 2017

    Three new variant influenza strains have been selected as candidate strains to develop vaccines...

    Swine flu variants

  • MERS Cases 23 to 29 October

    Saudi Arabia // 29 October, 2017

    The following cases have been reported by the Ministry of Health this week:

    MERS-CoV

  • United States: H1N2v flu case in Ohio

    United States // 28 October, 2017

    A case of variant influenza A(H1N2v) has been reported

    Swine flu variants, Seasonal Flu

  • WHO ‘Influenza at the human-animal interface’ summary

    Indonesia // China // United States // 10 October, 2017

    The WHO has published their latest risk assessment for human-animal flu, dated 27 September 2017...

    Bird flu H5N1, Bird flu other strains, Influenza H9N2, Bird flu H7N9, Swine flu variants

  • WHO flu update

    Chile // Uruguay // Australia // New Caledonia // Costa Rica // El Salvador // Brazil // Ghana // Cote d'Ivoire // Sierra Leone // Cameroon // Reunion // Cambodia // Laos // Mexico // Oman // Bahrain // 17 October, 2017

    According to WHO's latest flu update dated 16 October...

    Seasonal Flu, Influenza B, Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 "swine flu", Influenza H3N2

  • WHO vaccine recommendations for the 2018 southern hemisphere influenza season

    04 October, 2017

    The World Health Organization (WHO) has published the recommendations for the use of vaccines to prevent and control influenza for the 2017–18 season in the southern hemisphere.

    Influenza B, Seasonal Flu

  • Seasonal flu update

    Australia // 05 October, 2017

    Flu season is underway affecting most states of Australia.

    Influenza B, Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 "swine flu", Influenza H3N2, Seasonal Flu

  • Bird flu outbreaks in birds 9 to 15 October 2017

    South Africa // Taiwan (China) // Italy // Netherlands // South Korea // 13 October, 2017

    The spread of a variety of bird flu strains affecting poultry and wild birds continues. The following outbreaks have been reported by either the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) or national authorities this week:

    Influenza H5N8, Bird flu other strains, Avian Influenza H5N2

  • WHO flu update

    Afghanistan // China // Bhutan // Qatar // Australia // New Caledonia // Cote d'Ivoire // Sierra Leone // Chile // Costa Rica // Nicaragua // Ghana // Thailand // Laos // 04 October, 2017

    According to WHO's latest flu update dated 2 October, high flu activity continued to be recorded in the temperate zone of the southern hemisphere and in some countries of South and South East Asia.

    Influenza B, Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 "swine flu", Influenza H3N2, Seasonal Flu

  • MERS case 9 to 15 October

    Saudi Arabia // 15 October, 2017

    The following cases have been reported by the Ministry of Health this week...

    MERS-CoV

  • WHO update: H7N9 human infecitons in China

    China // 26 October, 2017

    Two confirmed H7N9 cases in China.

    Bird flu H7N9