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
The third edition of the IHR has just been published. For those of us working at ports, the change of particular interest to us is that yellow fever protection by approved vaccination is now recognised by WHO as providing lifetime protection as compared to the previous 10 year validity. Available at http://www.who.int/ihr/publications/9789241580496/en/
Please note for your information that a WHO Disease Outbreak News has been posted for the following public health event: Human infection with avian influenza A(H5N6) virus in China http://www.who.int/csr/don/6-may-2016-ah5n6-china/en/