Country

Lebanon

Updated: November 2025

Mpox

The first imported case of mpox was confirmed in June 2022 and local transmission was established.

Useful websites: See the Ministry of Health and WHO for updates.

Bird flu

Bird flu H5N1 was identified in birds in 2016.

Human cases of bird flu

No human cases of bird flu have been reported in Lebanon.

COVID-19

The first imported case was reported in 2020.

The COVID-19 hotline is 1787. The vaccination hotline is 1214.

Website: Ministry of Public Health COVID-19 website, Facebook and Twitter pages.

In April 2014, the first human case was detected. The patient had no known contact with confirmed MERS-CoV cases or animals, and did not drink unpasteurised camel milk. Although the patient did travel outside Lebanon, he had not been abroad in the 14 days before the illness started which suggests the virus is circulating in Lebanon. The second case in Lebanon was confirmed in June 2017, in a traveller who had recently returned from Saudi Arabia.