Airports and Air-travel

Please, find below the link to the disease outbreak news concerning 1 additional case of MERS-CoV infection in the United Arab Emirates :  http://www.who.int/csr/don/09-june-2015-mers-are/en/

Please, find below the link to the the disease outbreak news concerning 9 additional cases of MERS-CoV infection in the Republic of Korea :  http://www.who.int/csr/don/08-june-2015-mers-korea/en/

Please, find below the link to the disease outbreak news concerning 6 MERS-CoV cases in the Republic of Korea
http://www.who.int/csr/don/05-june-2015-mers-korea/en/

IATA had improved the request form for passenger contact tracing. It is now available on line at http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/safety/health/Pages/index.aspx, for national authorities to request this information to airlines.

The Sixty-eighth session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) takes place in Geneva 18–26 May 2015. The Health Assembly is the supreme decision-making body of WHO. It is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States. Its main functions are to determine the policies of the Organization, supervise financial policies, and review and approve the proposed programme budget. The Health Assembly is held annually in Geneva, Switzerland.

A total of 9 confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) was reported in the week to 10 May: the lowest weekly total this year (Guinea reported a total of 7 cases, Sierra Leone reported 2).

Please note that the 5th EC wild Polio statement is now available : http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2015/polio-5th-statement/en/

Please note that the 5th EC Ebola statement is now available : http://www.who.int/ihr/ihr_ec_ebola/en/

The AIRSAN newsletter is available for download on the AIRSAN website :
http://www.airsan.eu/Portals/0/docs/AIRSAN_Newsletter_2015-03_Issue_5.pdf