Bovine Pleuropneumonia -- NamibiaInformation received on [and dated] 26 Jun 2019 from Dr. Adrianatus Florentius Maseke, Chief Veterinary Officer, Veterinary Services, Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, Windhoek, NamibiaSummaryReport type: Immediate notificationDate of start of the event: 20 May 2019Date of confirmation of the event: 27 May 2019Report date: 26 Jun 2019Date submitted to OIE: 26 Jun 2019Reason for notification: Recurrence of a listed diseaseDate of previous occurrence: 12...
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Vesicular Stomatitis -- United StatesOne horse in Tom Green County, Texas was confirmed positive for vesicular stomatitis [VSV], with 5 others exposed.The USDA reported a rescue facility with 2 horses and 4 donkeys on site has a positive horse for vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV).One horse presented with lesions of unknown onset date, and there are no reported movements or contact with outside animals within the past 6 months. The affected horse has been isolated from the other animals, and the premises...
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Polio -- AfghanistanThe number of polio positive cases in Afghanistan has reached 10 so far in 2019, with 4 cases reported from Uruzgan [Oruzgan] province and 1 new case detected in the Mehr Abad area of Tirinkot, the provincial capital.According to Ministry of Public Health, a 21-month-old girl is permanently paralyzed in Tirinkot, making 10 cases of polio in Afghanistan so far [in 2019].The Health ministry in a statement said that last week, another polio case was reported from Trinkot, which paralyzed
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Hantavirus -- United StatesA 42-year-old McKinley County woman died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), officials with the New Mexico Department of Health reported this week.The fatality is the 2nd case of HPS confirmed in New Mexico in 2019, and the 1st death.The woman's name was not released, but the state Department of Health said it completed an environmental investigation at the woman's home to help reduce risk to others.New Mexico reported a total of 114 HPS cases with 49 deaths between...
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Hepatitis A -- United KingdomAn outbreak of hepatitis A at a school may have been passed through food eaten in the canteen, Public Health England (PHE) has said. Eight cases were confirmed at Outwood Academy in Ripon, North Yorkshire last week. The number of confirmed cases has risen to 17 following further tests, Dr Simon Padfield, a consultant in Communicable Disease Control at PHE, said. The school said it was providing regular updates on the situation.In a letter to parents on Tue 25 Jun 2019,...
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African Swine Fever -- VietnamViet Nam has culled nearly 10% of its pig herd to contain an African swine fever [ASF] outbreak that has started hitting large-scale industrial farms, the government said in a statement on Tuesday [25 Jun 2019].Earlier outbreaks have appeared mostly at small household farms but have now started to occur at larger industrial operations, including Phu Son Farm in Dong Nai province near Ho Chi Minh City, the statement said."This is a very worrying sign, as these farms have...
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Anthrax -- MyanmarI must apologise, as I did not notice that the previous posting (25 Jun 2019 Anthrax - Myanmar: (SA) cattle, OIE http://promedmail.org/post/20190625.6537539) was not the reporting of a new outbreak but just a closing of the books on the previous outbreak in this village in April and May 2018. The only significant difference between the 2 OIE reports was that in 2018 ( 26 May 2018 Anthrax - Myanmar (02): (SA) bovine, OIE http://promedmail.org/post/20180526.5821050), they listed among...
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Typhoid -- PakistanHealth authorities are planning to launch a mass vaccination drive against typhoid fever in Karachi after 2 children died due to extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid in the Sheedi goth area of Malir district in Karachi this week, health officials said on Tue 25 Jun 2019, adding as many as 122 cases of typhoid fever were reported from the area since [Tue 18 Jun 2019]."Two young girls including a 12-year-old and a 9-year-old died due to typhoid in the Sheedi goth (village) of...
Wed Jun 26, 2019 23:59
Cholera -- YemenA cholera outbreak in Yemen has killed 686 people since the start of 2019, the SABA news agency reported on Monday [24 Jun 2019], citing Houthi health ministry spokesman Youssef Hadri.Over 418 000 cholera cases have been reported in the country since January 2019, in addition to hundreds of malaria, denge, diphtheria, meningitis, and chicken pox cases, Hadri said. The WHO said the number of suspected cholera cases between 1 Jan 2018 and 9 Jun 2019 had gone up to 759 464 in Yemen,...
Wed Jun 26, 2019 23:49
Measles -- United StatesThere have been 92 confirmed cases of measles in Australia so far in 2019.In the US, health authorities are grappling with an outbreak. 33 new measles cases were recorded in the US last week [week of 17 Jun 2019], most of them in New York, federal health officials said on [Mon 24 Jun 2019].The new cases brought the number of confirmed cases this year to 1077, the worst US outbreak of the virus since 1992. Research by the Department of Health, the Doherty Institute and Royal...
Wed Jun 26, 2019 20:31
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