Cook Islands
Disasters
- Pacific: Drought - 2015-2017
- Pacific Drought - Sep 2011
- Cook Islands: Tropical Cyclone Pat - Feb 2010
- Cook Islands: Dengue Outbreak - May 2009
- Influenza A (H1N1) Pandemic - Apr 2009
- Cook Islands and Tokelau: Tropical Cyclone Percy - March 2005
- Cook Islands: Tropical Cyclone Olaf - Feb 2005
- Pacific: Cyclone Heta - Jan 2004
- Cook Islands: Tropical Cyclone Trina - Dec 2001
- Cook Islands: Tropical Cyclone Martin - Nov 1997
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Most read reports
- Government of Cook Islands launch Country Preparedness Package with Pacific Humanitarian Team
- Young Farmers: Strengthening the agricultural resilience of the Cook Islands to climate change
- Fresh groundwater potential discovered in Cook Islands could support communities on remote islands
- Cook Islands Water Update - 5 October 2017
- Cook Islands: Country Preparedness Package
The following syndrome has been flagged this week:
- Acute Fever and Rash: Federal States of Micronesia, French Polynesia
Other Update:
Invasive Meningococcal Disease
The following syndrome has been flagged this week:
- Acute Fever and Rash: American Samoa, French Polynesia
Other Update:
Polio
- PNG: Southern Highlands has reported the country's 19th polio case since June 2018 and 3 cases are pending confirmation. The case a 1-year-old male did not receive the polio emergency vaccination. Source: PROMED
Dengue
The following syndromes have been flagged this week:
Acute Fever and Rash: Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), French Polynesia
Prolonged fever: FSM
Other Update:
Polio
The need to accelerate climate change adaptation and improve multi-hazard early warning systems to increase resilience to extreme weather took centre-stage at WMO’s Regional Association for Asia and the Pacific (RAV), hosted by Tonga from 15-17 October.
Pacific countries presented the status of progress in the development of their early warning systems as part of a three-year project entitled “Strengthening Hydro-meteorological and Early Warning Services in the Pacific”.
Representatives from Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu provided updates at a session in Tonga on progress and priorities.
The following syndromes have been flagged this week:
• Acute Fever and Rash: Samoa
• Influenza-like illness: Northern Marianna Islands
Other Update:
Invasive Meningococcal Disease
The following syndromes have been flagged this week:
- Acute Fever and Rash: Northern Mariana Is, Samoa
- Dengue-like illness: French Polynesia, Palau
Other Updates:
Polio
by Olivia Warrick
Disaster managers from Pacific Red Cross National Societies this week held their annual forum in Fiji’s RakiRaki Town, where discussions centred on “putting the last mile first” through early warning early action.
A global El Niño watch is currently in effect and the workshop was seen as timely since this could have potentially severe, but opposite, effects in different parts of the Pacific region.
The following syndromes have been flagged this week:
Acute Fever and Rash: Samoa
Influenza-like illness: Palau
Dengue-like illness: Samoa
Other Updates:
Dengue
The following syndromes have been flagged this week:
Acute Fever and Rash: American Samoa
Prolonged Fever: Tonga
Other Updates:
Polio
The following syndromes have been flagged this week:
• Acute Fever and Rash: Palau, FSM, Kiribati, Vanuatu, American Samoa
• Diarrhoea: Tokelau
Other Updates:
Polio
The Pacific Humanitarian Team (PHT) is a network of humanitarian organizations that work together to assist the Pacific island countries prepare for and respond to disasters. During disasters, the PHT provides support to governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and communities in delivering a fast, effective and appropriate disaster response. Outside of disasters, the PHT works with the Pacific governments and partners to ensure that the necessary arrangements are in place to enable effective international support to nationally-led disaster response.
The Country Preparedness Package (CPP) is a joint initiative by the Governments and the Pacific Humanitarian Team (PHT). The CPP is intended to strengthen preparedness and collaboration between national and international actors in a disaster response. The CPP is developed and agreed with the national governments before a disaster. Throughout the process, national actors become more aware of the international tools and services and how they can be activated. This will enable a more ‘demand-driven’ response, tailored to the specific context.
The following syndromes have been flagged this week:
- Acute Fever and Rash: CNMI, Fiji,Tonga
Other Updates:
Leptospirosis
- Wallis and Futuna confirms 13 cases in since January 2018. For further details please refer to Patrick Lambruschini's PacNet post on 5 September 2018.
Dengue
The following syndromes have been flagged this week:
- Acute Fever and Rash: French Polynesia
- Prolonged Fever: Fiji
Other Updates:
Dengue
Ongoing dengue serotype-2 outbreak in **American Samoa**. As of 25 August, 2018 there have been 1,085 confirmed cases since 1 November 2016;. The outbreak appears to be slowing down. For further details please refer to Aifili Tufa's PacNet post on 28 August 2018.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) has issued a Tsunami Threat for the following coasts, stating:
TSUNAMI WAVES REACHING 0.3 TO 1 METERS ABOVE THE TIDE LEVEL ARE POSSIBLE FOR SOME COASTS OF FIJI... NEW CALEDONIA... AND VANUATU.
The following syndrome was flagged this week:
- Acute Fever and Rash: Tonga, Northern Mariana Island
Other Updates:
Dengue
- Ongoing dengue serotype-2 outbreak in **Kiribati**. As of 16 August, 2018 there have been 1,778 cases since February 2018; including 217 hospitalised cases and two deaths in children. The outbreak appears to be slowing down.
Source: Dengue-like illness SitRep No 29, Ministry of Health and Medical Services.
Polio
The following syndrome was flagged this week:
- Acute Fever and Rash: Fiji, Kiribati, French Polynesia
Other Updates:
Dengue
- Ongoing dengue serotype-2 outbreak in Kiribati. As of 11 August, 2018 there have been 1,756 cases since February 2018; including 217 hospitalised cases and two deaths in children. The outbreak appears to be slowing down.
Source: Dengue-like illness SitRep No 28, Ministry of Health and Medical Services.
The following syndrome was flagged this week:
- Acute Fever and Rash: CNMI, FSM, Kiribati
Other Updates:
Dengue
Ongoing dengue serotype-2 outbreak in Kiribati. As of 31 July there have been 1,707 cases since February 2018; including 211 hospitalised cases and two deaths in children. The outbreak appears to be slowing down. Source Dengue-like illness SitRep No 26, Ministry of Health and Medical Services.
Dengue serotype-1 outbreak is ongoing in Wallis and Futuna.
State of emergency volcanic eruption
The following syndrome was flagged this week:
- Acute Fever and Rash: Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga
Other Updates:
Influenza
Global influenza update as of 8 July :
