Kenya: Polio Outbreak - Sep 2024 Updates

What happened, where and when? In 2024, Kenya faced a significant public health concern following the detection of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2), with three confirmed cases...

This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African region. This week’s articles cover: Cholera in Angola Sudan Virus Disease in Uganda Lassa fever in Nigeria For...

Welcome to our Epidemic Intelligence Weekly Report, your trusted source for real-time updates on priority events of concern on the continent. The narrative brought to you focuses on three main areas:...

This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African region. This week’s articles cover: Sudan Virus Disease in Uganda Marburg Virus Disease in the United Republic...

This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African region. This week’s articles cover: Mpox in Sierra Leone Cholera in Uganda Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic fever in...

Update to Event: Between epidemiological weeks 1 and 52, a total of 72,506 cases of mpox, of which 16,309 were laboratory-confirmed, and 1,288 deaths [case fatality rate (CFR: 1.78%) have been...

This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African region. This week’s articles cover: Diphtheria in Guinea Cyclone Chido in Mozambique For each of these events, a...

This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African region. This week’s articles cover: Cholera in Malawi Mpox in Ghana For each of these events, a brief...

This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African region. This week’s articles cover: Cholera in Uganda Mpox in Kenya For each of these events, a brief...

This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African region. This week’s articles cover: Marburg virus disease in Rwanda (End of outbreak declaration) Unknown...

This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African region. This week’s articles cover: Measles in Niger Humanitarian Crisis in South Sudan For each of these...

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SITUATION ANALYSIS Description of the crisis Communities in Kenya are once again facing heavy rains and devasting floods. The above-average rainfall during this March-April-May (MAM) long rains...

Nairobi, Kampala – Between October 3 and 6, 2024, more than 6.5 million children were vaccinated in a successful synchronized polio campaign between Kenya and Uganda. This cross-border achievement...

SUMMARY OF CRISIS AND KEY FINDINGS The Greater Horn of Africa (GHoA) region remains one of the world's most food-insecure regions with 54 million people in high levels of food insecurity with Sudan,...

Description of the Event Date when the trigger was met 08-09-2024 What happened, where and when? Kenya is currently facing a public health challenge due to an outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived...