Current Travel Health News

The World Health Organization had confirmed Indonesia’s 33rd case of human infection with H5N1 Avian Influenza virus. The patient was a 30-year-old man from Greater Jakarta.  He developed symptoms on 17 April, was hospitalised on 21 April, and died on 26 April.  He lived in close proximity to pens where animals including poultry were kept.  Of the 33 laboratory-confirmed cases in Indonesia, 25 had been fatal.

 

(Source: World Health Organization 8 May 2006)

In Indonesia's North Sumatra province, blood samples of 5 people from a family were confirmed to be positive for Avian Influenza virus after tests by the country's laboratory. The 5 people had contact with fowls and pigs.  Among the 5 people, 3 of them had died at the end of April.

 

(Source: ProMED-mail 14 May 2006)

The World Health Organization had confirmed the first human case of Avian Influenza in Djibouti. The patient was a 2-year-old girl living in Arta district.  She developed symptoms on 23 April and was now in stable condition.  Three chickens were also found to be positive for H5N1 virus.

 

(Source: World Health Organization and ProMED-mail 12 May 2006)

The spread of deadly H5N1 Avian Influenza in Nigeria was slowing down. No outbreaks in new states were reported since the disease reached Lagos in late March 2006.  So far, Nigeria had not reported any human cases of the disease.

 

(Source: ProMED-mail 11 May 2006)

As of 3 May 2006, 339 cases of Avian Influenza in wild birds have been confirmed in Germany. States which reported cases recently included Brandenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Bavaria and Saxony.

 

(Source: ProMED-mail 10 May 2006)

In the Kochkovo district, the Novosibirsk region, Siberia, Russia, Avian Influenza had killed 64 birds so far. The disease had been recently reported in Russia's 6 villages, 4 of them in Dagestan, one in the Krasnodar Territory and another one in the Novosibirsk region.

 

(Source: ProMED-mail 11 May 2006)

In India, Delhi had reported 222 cases of Cholera in the last 4 months as against 92 in the corresponding period in 2005.

 

(Source: ProMED-mail 12 May 2006)

In Malaysia, an outbreak of Cholera occurred in 18 villages of Kota Belud district 2 weeks ago. There were 100 cases being treated and quarantined in hospital. Among them, 24 had been categorised as Cholera patients, 59 active carriers and 17 cases with diarrhoea.

 

(Source: ProMED-mail 12 May 2006)

Angola had reported a total of 30 612 cases of Cholera and 1 156 deaths from 19 February to 8 May 2006.  Of these cases, 50% had occurred in Luanda province, 25% in Benguela province, 10% in Malanje and Kuanza Norte provinces.  A further 5 other provinces had reported between 3 and 155 cases with a crude fatality rate ranging from 1 – 33%.  The peak of the outbreak occurred 3 weeks ago in Benguela and Bengo provinces.  However, in the other provinces the outbreak had just started or was still spreading.

 

(Source: World Health Organization 10 May 2006)

An outbreak of Dysentery had occurred in Mandera District in North Eastern Province, Kenya since April. A total of 37 cases with 11 deaths were reported.  A water pond used also by animals was identified as the source of the outbreak.

 

(Source: ProMED-mail 12 May 2006)