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Weekly Epidemiological Monitor 2008

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Weekly Epidemiological Monitor

Volume 1, 2008

Issue 52

Deliberate anthrax attacks?

Issue 51

New H5N1 case no.51 in Egypt

Issue 50

Zoonosis: need for joint actions

Issue 49

Acute haemorrhagic fever remained a public health threat in EMR

Issue 48

Cholera continued to threaten public health in EMR

Issue 47

Public health events associated with travel history in EMR

Issue 46

No outbreaks reported from the flood affected areas of Hadramont and Seiyum in Yemen.

Issue 45

Dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever in western Saudi Arabia

Issue 44

Suspected VHF in Juba, southern Sudan

Issue 43

Plan rolled out for assessment of pandemic preparedness for influenza

Issue 42

Reporting of an unknown disease leads to contact tracing in Lebanon

Issue 41

Anthrax outbreak in Iraq

Issue 40

On hajj requirements: Saudi health measures, 2008

Issue 39

Consultation held on yellow fever [YF]and international travel

Issue 38

Cholera in Iraq: the outbreak unfolds

Issue 37

CCHF in Afghanistan: outbreak contained

Issue 36

Cholera in Iraq

Issue 35

Increased cholera activities in EMR

Issue 34

CCHF in Afghanistan

Issue 33

IHR 2005 implementation plan rolled out for EMR

Issue 32

Outbreaks continue to challenge health systems of southern Sudan

Issue 31

Cholera preparedness geared up in Iraq

Issue 30

Multiple outbreaks from DF/DHF in the EMR

Issue 29

Limited cholera outbreaks in 2008

Issue 28

Plan rolled out for setting up NICs in the EMR

Issue 27

IHR core capacity assessment tool field tested in Afghanistan

Issue 26

HPAI reemerges in NWFP, Pakistan

Issue 25

No major outbreak from meningococcal disease

Issue 24

Dengue outbreak in Yemen

Issue 22-23

Cholera outbreak in southern Sudan

Issue 21

Hepatitis E outbreak in Sudan

Issue 20

Self-assessment checklists developed for IHR core capacity assessment

Issue 19

Gulran disease: an outbreak in Afghanistan

Issue 17-18

Assessment and revision of Oman public health law

Issue 16,

Human avian influenza in Egypt: case no.49

Issue 15

Establishing a regional task force for implementation of IHR 2005 in the EMR

Issue 14

Human to human transmission of H5N1 virus in a family cluster in Pakistan

Issue 13

Men a conjugate vaccine: could it change epidemiology of meningococcal meningitis in Africa

Issue 12

EMRO NICs participate in composition of influenza virus vaccines, 2008-2009

Issue 11

Nodding disease in southern Sudan

Issue 10

Cholera in Somalia

Issue 09

Preparedness for Meningococcal Meningitis, Sudan, 2008

Issue 08

IATA licensing workshop on shipping influenza specimens and virus isolates for the EMR countries

Issue 07

Thallium poisoning, Iraq

Issue 06

Oseltamivir resistance found in influenza viruses

Issue 05

Sandfly fever in Lebanon

Issue 04

Cholera in Iraq

Issue 03

An outbreak of rift valley fever in Sudan

Issue 02

Avian influenza [AI]outbreak in Pakistan: no evidence found for sustained person to person transmission of H5N1 virus in a family cluster

Issue 01

Re-emergence of avian influenza in Egypt