Emerging infectious disease outbreaks reported in the Eastern Mediterranean Region in 2017
Throughout 2017, the Eastern Mediterranean Region of WHO faced a number of emerging infectious diseases, some of these turning into explosive outbreaks. The emerging infectious diseases that have been reported in the Eastern Mediterranean Region in 2017 include: 1) acute watery diarrhoea; 2) avian influenza; 3) cholera; 4) Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever; 5) chikungunya; 6) chickenpox (varicella); 7) diphtheria; 8) Middle East respiratory syndrome; and 9) Travel-associated Legionnaire’s Disease.