In South Australia, a Mumps outbreak has been identified among 8 university students who lived in the same student accommodation in Adelaide.

In Saskatchewan province of Canada, an outbreak of H7N3 Avian Influenza has been confirmed at a large chicken farm near Regina. Officials planned to cull 50 000 birds in the farm. Experts considered that the H7N3 strain of the virus was normally not associated with serious human illness.

In the USA, 5 human cases of Plague have been reported in New Mexico in 2007. One of them died of the disease.

The epidemic of Japanese Encephalitis in the eastern Uttar Pradesh state of India has so far affected 1 381 persons and claimed 227 lives since January 2007. The patients were from Gorakhpur, Deoria, Maharajganj, Sant Kabrinagar, Kushinagar, Ballia, Gonda, and Balrampur districts. Gorakhpur is apparently the epicenter of outbreak.

In Rajshahi division of Bangladesh, over 4 500 fowls were culled following an outbreak of Avian Influenza in a farm in Bogra city,.

In Russia, an outbreak of Avian Influenza was reported in a farm in Krasnodar Territory. A total of 170 600 birds have been culled.

(Source: ProMED-mail 27 September 2007)

In Bulgaria, 20 new human cases of Brucellosis were reported in Haskovo province. A total of 36 animal cases were reported earlier in the same province.

As of 28 September 2007, the Health Ministry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo reported 24 laboratory-confirmed cases of Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever.