The fourth meeting of the Emergency Committee (EC) on Zika and microcephaly convened by the Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) regarding microcephaly, other neurological disorders and Zika virus was on 1 September 2016. The Committee agreed that Zika virus infection and its associated congenital and other neurological disorders continues to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).

Please note that the WHO Statement following the 10th IHR Emergency Committee for Polio has been posted on the WHO public website
URL: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2016/10th-ihr-emergency/en/

Zika situation report of 11 August 2016 has been posted. The report is available on the WHO Zika virus web site.
URL: http://www.who.int/emergencies/zika-virus/situation-report/11-august-2016/en/
Full text: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/249518/1/zikasitrep11Aug2016-eng.pdf?ua=1

Weekly Epidemiological Record 5th August 2016 is available at: http://www.who.int/wer/2016/wer9131/en/
In this issue:
- Update on vaccine-derived polioviruses worldwide, January 2015–May 2016
- Environmental isolation of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus after interruption of wild poliovirus transmission, Nigeria, 2016
Full text at: http://www.who.int/entity/wer/2016/wer9131.pdf?ua=1