Weekly Epidemiological Record articles from October 2006

Weekly Epidemiological Record archives from October 2006

Chikungunya, India/Chikungunya, Inde.(OUTBREAK NEWS/LE POINT SUR LES EPIDEMIES)
October 27, 2006... Between February 2006 and 10 October 2006, the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia reported 151 districts in 8 states/provinces of India affected by chikungunya fever. (1) The affected states are Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh,...

Poliomyelitis, Kenya/Poliomyelite, Kenya.(OUTBREAK NEWS/LE POINT SUR LES EPIDEMIES)
October 27, 2006... On 19 October 2006, 1 case of wild poliovirus type-1, caused by an importation of virus from neighbouring Somalia, was reported from a Somali refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya. The 3-year old girl (who was born in Kenya and had not...

Yellow fever, Cote d'Ivoire/Fievre jaune, Cote d'Ivoire.(OUTBREAK NEWS/LE POINT SUR LES EPIDEMIES)
October 27, 2006... On 5 October 2006, the Ministry of Health reported 2 cases of yellow fever: a 30-year-old man from Korhogo and a 16 year-old girl from Ouaragahio. Both cases were laboratory confirmed (IgM Elisa assay) by the Institut Pasteur, Abidjan (Cote...

Human cases of influenza A(H5N1) infection in eastern Turkey, December 2005-January 2006/Cas de grippe A(H5N1) chez l'homme dans l'est de la Turquie, decembre 2005-janvier 2006.(Report)
October 27, 2006... Background On 3 January 2006, the National Influenza Centre at the Refik Saydam Hygiene Centre in Ankara, Turkey, informed WHO that 2 children with fulminant atypical pneumonia had been admitted to Yuzuncu Yil University Hospital in the...

International health regulations/Reglement sanitaire international.(Brief article)
October 27, 2006... INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS / REGLEMENT SANITAIRE INTERNATIONAL Notifications of diseases received from 20 to 26 October 2006 / Notifications de maladies recues du 20 au 26 octobre 2006 Cholera / Cholera ...

Avian influenza, Indonesia--update (1)/Grippe aviaire, Indonesie--mise a jour (1).(OUTBREAK NEWS/LE POINT SUR LES EPIDEMIES)
October 20, 2006... On 16 October 2006, the Ministry of Health in Indonesia confirmed 3 additional cases of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. All 3 cases were fatal. The first newly confirmed case, a 67-year-old woman from West Java...

Plague, democratic Republic of the Congo (1)/Peste, Republique democratique du Congo (1).(OUTBREAK NEWS/LE POINT SUR LES EPIDEMIES)(Brief article)
October 20, 2006... On 13 October 2006, WHO received reports of a suspected outbreak of pneumonic plague in 2 health zones in Haut-Uele District, the majority reported from Wamba health zone in Oriental Province in the northern part of the country. Some 626...

Vaccine-derived polioviruses--update/Poliovirus derives d'une souche vaccinale--mise a jour.
October 20, 2006... In 1988, the World Health Assembly resolved to eradicate polio worldwide. Through the WHO Global Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI), the global incidence of polio has decreased, from 350 000 cases in 1988 to fewer than 2000 in 2005, and polio...

Influenza in the world, February-September 2006/La grippe dans le monde, fevrier-septembre 2006.
October 20, 2006... Between February and September 2006, influenza activity was low compared with the same period in recent years. (1) Activity continued in North America and Asia and declined in April, except in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR)...

Case definition for extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis/Definition de cas pour la tuberculose a bacilles ultraresistants.
October 20, 2006... The first meeting of the WHO Global Task Force on extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) was held in Geneva on 9-10 October 2006. A summary report and the recommendations will be published in the Weekly Epidemiological Record on 10...

Influenza/Grippe.
October 20, 2006... During weeks 35-40, overall influenza activity remained low in both hemispheres. Argentina. (1) Localized influenza A(H1N1) activity continued during weeks 35-40, with sporadic detections of influenza B viruses reported. Chile. (1)...

International health regulations/Reglement sanitaire international.(Brief article)
October 20, 2006... INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS / REGLEMENT SANITAIRE INTERNATIONAL Notifications of diseases received from 13 to 19 October 2006 / Notifications de maladies recues du 13 au 19 octobre 2006 Cholera / Cholera ...

Acute watery diarrhoeal syndrome, Ethiopia/Syndrome de diarrhee aqueuse aigue, Ethiopie.(OUTBREAK NEWS/LE POINT SUR LES EPIDEMIES)(Brief article)
October 13, 2006... On 28 September 2006, the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia reported a total of 22 101 cases and 219 deaths (case-fatality rate (CFR), 1.0%). Five regions out of 9 (Amhara, Oromiya, Somali, Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's Region...

Avian influenza, Egypt--update (1)/Grippe aviaire, Egypte--mise a jour (1).(OUTBREAK NEWS/LE POINT SUR LES EPIDEMIES)(Brief article)
October 13, 2006... On 11 October 2006, the Ministry of Health in Egypt confirmed the country's first case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus since May of this year. The patient, a 39-year-old woman from the Gharbiya governorate in the...

Botulism, Canada and United States/Botulisme, Canada et Etats-Unis.(OUTBREAK NEWS/LE POINT SUR LES EPIDEMIES)
October 13, 2006... On 11 October, 4 cases of botulism associated with commercial carrot juice were reported in the states of Florida and Georgia in the United States. Two cases have also been reported in Toronto, Canada. All cases had consumed the same brand of...

Addressing the threat of tuberculosis caused by extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis/Parer a la menace de tuberculose a bacilles ultraresistants.(Disease/Disorder overview)
October 13, 2006... Background The global emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) during the 1990s was quickly recognized as a threat to worldwide tuberculosis control efforts. (1) MDR-TB, defined as resistance to at least isoniazid and...

Recommended composition of influenza virus vaccines for use in the 2007 influenza season/Composition recommandee des vaccins antigrippaux pour la saison 2007.
October 13, 2006... September 2006 This recommendation relates to the composition of vaccines for the forthcoming winter in the southern hemisphere (May-October 2007). A recommendation will be made in February 2007 relating to vaccines that will be used for...

International health regulations/Reglement sanitaire International.(Brief article)
October 13, 2006... INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS/REGLEMENT SANITAIRE INTERNATIONAL Notifications of diseases received from 6 to 12 October 2006/Notifications de maladies recues du 6 au 12 octobre 2006 Cholera/Cholera ...

WHO web sites on infectious diseases/Sites internet de l'OMS sur les maladies infectieuses.(Website list)
October 13, 2006... WHO web sites on infectious diseases Sites internet de l'OMS sur les maladies infectieuses Avian influenza http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ avian_influenza/en/index.html...

Avian influenza, Indonesia--update (1)/Grippe aviaire, Indonesie--mise a jour (1).
October 6, 2006... On 3 October 2006, the Ministry of Health in Indonesia confirmed the country's 69th case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The case, a 21-year-old female from East Java Province, developed symptoms on 19 September...

Informal consultation on preventing disability from lymphatic filariasis, WHO, Geneva, August 2006/Consultation informelle sur la prevention des incapacites dues a la filariose lymphatique, OMS, Geneve, aout 2006.
October 6, 2006... Introduction In 1997, World Health Assembly Resolution 50.29 called for the elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem. In response, WHO recommended a strategy based on 2 components. The first component is the...

International health regulations/reglement sanitaire international.
October 6, 2006... INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS / REGLEMENT SANITAIRE INTERNATIONAL Notifications of diseases received from 29 September to 5 October 2006 / Notifications de maladies recues du 29 septembre au 5 octobre 2006 Cholera / Cholera ...

WHO web sites on infectious diseases/sites internet de I'OMS sur les maladies infectieuses.(Website list)
October 6, 2006... WHO web sites on infectious diseases Sites internet de l'OMS sur les maladies infectieuses Avian influenza http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ avian_influenza/en/index.html ...