Current Travel Health News
Travel Health News Digest (1 September 2008)
Taiwan reported 3 recent indigenous Dengue Fever cases in Shezidao of Shilin District last week.
(Source: ProMED 26 August 2008)
The Philippines recorded a total of 720 suspected Dengue Fever cases and 567 confirmed Dengue Fever cases in Pangasinan and Negros Oriental respectively this year.
(Source: ProMED 26 August 2008)
Singapore: Chikungunya Fever [update 2]
Singapore reported 5 cases of Chikungunya Fever linked to Lim Chu Kang, bringing to 150 the total number of such cases in the country this year.
(Source: ProMED 26 August 2008)
Thailand reported a total of 41 307 cases of Dengue Fever, including 48 deaths, this year, with 48 deaths.
(Source: ProMED 26 August 2008)
Afghanistan: Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever
In Afghanistan, an outbreak of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever affecting 5 people including 2 deaths was reported in Herat.
(Source: ProMED-mail 27 August 2008)
India reported a total of 35 Dengue Fever cases in Delhi so far this year. It is 3 times more than those reported during the same period last year.
(Source: ProMED 26 August 2008)
Pakistan reported 287 cases of Dengue Fever, including 4 deaths, Dengue fever in the city of Karachi, with 4 deaths. Five new patients were admitted in different hospitals in the last 24 hours.
(Source: ProMED 26 August 2008)
South Pacific Islands: Dengue Fever
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a Dengue Feverdengue fever warning for Fiji following the recent outbreak in neighbouring Pacific Island countries.
(Source: ProMED 26 August 2008)
Brazil reported a total of 230 860 cases of Dengue Fever, including 162 deaths, in Rio de Janeiro in 2008.
(Source: ProMED 26 August 2008)
Benin: Avian Influenza, poultry
In Benin, 2 chickens purchased from a market in Lokossa were tested positive for the highly pathogenic Avian Influenza virus.
(Source: ProMED-mail 25 August 2008)
Russia : Enterovirus Infection
In Russia, an outbreak of Enterovirus Infection affecting about 300 people, mostly children, was reported in Vladivostok. Half of the cases developed symptoms of meningitis.
(Source: ProMED-mail 31 August 2008)