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According to media reports, malaria cases in Limpopo province have doubled from 206 to over 400 cases in two...
Between October 8th and November 11th, 2021 86 cases of dengue fever infections were registered in the...
(source image: PAHO Zika weekly report, accessed 19.11.2021) The high incidence in Guatemala compared to...
Dominican Republic: A total of 56 suspected diphtheria cases were reported between week 1 and 42 in 2021, of...
According to media reports, at least 80 fishermen have fallen ill with an unclear skin disease in the suburbs...
Colombia: 7 suspected diphtheria cases were reported between week 1 and 41 (2021), of which 1 was...
Haiti: A sustained diphtheria outbreak has been ongoing since 2014 (over >1,300 suspected cases). In 2021...
A person in Maryland, USA, has contracted monkeypox after a stay in Nigeria. Laboratory tests revealed that...
The Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games are scheduled for February 4-20 and March 4-13, 2022, respectively....
Diphtheria cases were reported in four countries in 2021: Dominican Republic: A total of 56 suspected...
Forty-two suspected cases of yellow fever (YF) were reported between October 15th, 2021, and November 3rd,...
More than 1.1 million cases of typhoid fever have been reported from the beginning of the year (2021) until...
Ukrainian health officials report a polio case in an unvaccinated 12-year-old child with acute flaccid...
India, Delhi: Health authorities in Delhi have reported 531 additional dengue fever cases in one week,...
More than 23,000 dengue cases (including 89 deaths) have been recorded since the beginning of 2021, with the...
Diphtheria bacteria were detected in three people in the Ky Son district in the Huu Lap commune (northwest of...
In the district of Ghaziabad in the state of Uttar Pradesh, 13 diphtheria cases were registered until October...
In Ernakulam district, Kerala state, the number of confirmed leptospirosis cases have continued to increase...
The 'Pan American Health Organization' (PAHO) has reported 122,203 chikungunya fever cases in the Americas in...
According to WHO, three laboratory-confirmed cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2)...
Over 120 cases of salmonella have been reported since 2019 in Germany (68 cases), Sweden (37 cases), Norway...
In the Punjab province, cases of dengue infections are increasing significantly, with more than 300 cases per...
The Minister of Health declared a health emergency on the 10th of October (2021) for 51 districts in 15...
Two hundred cases of schistosomiasis and diarrhea have been reported in children due to drinking contaminated...
In der Provinz North-Kivu wurde ein neuer, im Labor bestätigter Fall mit einer Ebola-Virus-Infektion...
4 November 2021
Guinea-Bissau – Adjustment of polio vaccination recommendations
Due to a polio outbreak, the vaccination recommendations in Guinea-Bissau have been adjusted.
14 October 2021
Gambia, Ukraine – Adjustment of polio vaccination recommendations
Due to a polio outbreak, the vaccination recommendations in Gambia and the Ukraine have been adjusted.
22 August 2021
Poliomyelitis – Adjustment of countries with temporary WHO vaccination recommendations
The WHO recommendation to prevent the international spread of poliomyelitis has been updated on the country pages.
1 July 2021
Malaria – Update 2021
The Swiss Expert Committee for Travel Medicine adapted the malaria risk areas. You will find the updated recommendations for malaria prevention on the country pages.
