PoE Vector Identification Platform

WHO is rapidly scaling up its response to an outbreak of plague in Madagascar that has spread to the capital and port towns, infecting more than 100 people in just a few weeks
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/plague/en/
Specific information for travelers at : http://www.who.int/ith/updates/20171003/en/

The Spanish translation of the  Handbook for the Management of Public Health Events in Air Transport has been published on WHO website and is available here:
http://www.who.int/ihr/publications/9789241510165_eng/es/

Please note for your information that a Disease Outbreak News has been posted for the following public health event:
- Plague in Madagascar - http://www.who.int/csr/don/29-september-2017-plague-madagascar/en/

Please note for your information that a Disease Outbreak News has been posted for the following public health event:
- Chikungunya in Italy - http://www.who.int/csr/don/29-september-2017-chikungunya-italy/en/

Relevé épidémiologique hebdomadaire (REH) du 29 septembre 2017 est disponible sur: http://www.who.int/wer/2017/wer9239/fr/  
Dans ce numéro:
- Arménie, Maldives, Sri Lanka et Kirghizistan certifiés exempts de paludisme
- Elimination du paludisme: rapport du forum mondial inaugural des pays en mesure d’éliminer le paludisme d’ici à 2020
- Rapport mensuel des cas de dracunculose, janvier-août 2017

Weekly Epidemiological Record 29 September 2017 is available at: http://www.who.int/wer/2017/wer9239/en/  
In this issue:
-  Armenia, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Kyrgyzstan certified malaria-free
-  Malaria elimination: report from the inaugural global forum of countries with potential to eliminate malaria by 2020
-  Monthly report on dracunculiasis cases, January-August 2017

Please note for your information that a Disease Outbreak News has been posted for the following public health event:
- Chikungunya in France:  http://www.who.int/csr/don/25-august-2017-chikungunya-france/en/

Weekly Epidemiological Record 18th  August 2017 is available at: http://www.who.int/wer/2017/wer9233/en/
In this issue:
-  Progress towards poliomyelitis eradication: Afghanistan, January 2016–June 2017
-  Human cases of influenza at the human-animal interface, January 2015–April 2017
-  Health conditions for travellers to Saudi Arabia for the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj), 2017

Relevé épidémiologique hebdomadaire (REH) du 18 août 2017 est disponible sur: http://www.who.int/wer/2017/wer9233/fr/
Dans ce numéro:
- Progrès accomplis en vue de l’éradication de la poliomyélite: Afghanistan, janvier 2016-juin 2017
- Cas humains de grippe à l’interface homme-animal, janvier 2015-avril 2017
-  Dispositions sanitaires pour les voyageurs se rendant en Arabie saoudite pour le pèlerinage à La Mecque (Hadj), 2017

Weekly Epidemiological Record 11th  August 2017 is available at: http://www.who.int/wer/2017/wer9232/en/
In this issue:
-  Deployments from the oral cholera vaccine stockpile, 2013–2017
-  Yellow fever in Africa and the Americas, 2016
Full text at: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/258707/1/WER9232.pdf?ua=1