In the first 2 months of 2024 Vietnam has recorded almost 70,000 people required rabies vaccination after animal bites – and 18 deaths from rabies have been recorded.

Air travel in and out of Mexico City has been disrupted, with flights being grounded due to an eruption from Mexico’s most active volcano - ’Popo’. Volcanic ash is filling the skies affecting air travel and air quality.

The Malaysian health minister has reported 256 confirmed leprosy cases contracted in 2023, an increase of 40%.

Following the confirmed occurrence of yellow fever in South Sudan late December, the Ministry of Health, with the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and other collaborators, has launched a reactive vaccination campaign for yellow fever as a

The Uraguay Health Regulator (IHR NFP) notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of a human case of western equine encephalitis (WEE) virus infection has been confirmed, the first case in 10 years.

Saudi Arabia has reported four more MERS-CoV cases to the WHO, their symptoms began in late 2023, 2 cases have since died. The cases are from 3 different regions: Riyadh, Eastern, and Qassim.

Diptheria cases continue to rise with a total of 24,940 suspected cases and 787 deaths in 2023. Cases were reported from South Africa, Nigeria, Guinea, Niger and Mauritania, with Nigeria accounting for approx.

Due to illness among a small number of Norwegian Cruise Line guests, they were prevented from disembarking at Port Louis with concerns of cholera – while Mauritian health authorities mandated testing as a precautionary measure.

Brazil has reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO) a confirmed human case of infection with swine-origin influenza A (H1N1)  from an unknown source.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a warning that unless immediate preventive measures are implemented, more than half of the world's nations will face a high or very high risk of measles outbreaks by the end of the year.