The Ministry of Health in Indonesia confirmed a new case of human infection of H5N1 Avian Influenza. The victim was a 6-year-old girl from Magelang District in Central Java Province. She developed symptoms on 8 January and died on 19 January. Of the 81 cases confirmed to date in Indonesia, 63 had been fatal.

In West Java of Indonesia, 3 dead chickens had been found to carry the Avian Influenza virus.

In Thailand, Department of Livestock Development confirmed the country's third case of Avian Influenza outbreak in 2007. H5N1 Avian Influenza virus was detected in samples of fighting cocks and chickens from Samko district in the central province of Ang Thong. All poultry in the flock were culled.

Japan confirmed that the 3rd and 4th cases of bird flu outbreak within this month involved the highly pathogenic H5 strain of Avian Influenza. Dozens of chickens died of H5 infection in a poultry farm in the city of Takahashi, Okayama prefecture, during the past days. And infected poultry were again found in another poultry farm in Miyazaki.

The sample from the dead turkeys on a farm near Lowestoft in Suffolk, United Kingdom contained the highly pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza virus.

Russia recorded its 1st outbreak this year of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of Avian Influenza in dead domestic birds in 3 domestic yards in the Krasnodar region of southern Russia.

Nigeria reported a fatal case of confirmed Avian Influenza infection in a 22-year-old female from Lagos. The mother of the case died earlier with similar symptoms. Laboratory tests on the samples of the case were positive for influenza H5N1 virus. Contacts had been followed up and were all asymptomatic.

In Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ministry of Health had reported 53 suspected cases of Meningococcal Meningitis including 6 deaths in January 2007, in the north-eastern part of the country, bordering Uganda. Two cerebrospinal fluid specimens had been tested positive for Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A. A vaccination campaign targeting 99 400 people was being prepared and would be synchronized with Uganda, which was currently experiencing an outbreak of Meningococcal Disease in the neighbouring area.

As of 30 January, 411 suspected cases, including 121 deaths of Rift Valley Fever had been reported in the North Eastern Province, Coast Province, Eastern Province and Central Province of Kenya. Garissa district and Ijara district in the North Eastern Province had been the most affected, reporting the most cases and deaths.

As of 30 January, the World Health Organization had reported 100 suspected cases including 48 deaths in Somalia.

A suspected outbreak of Cholera had killed up to 121 people in central Hiraan area and Middle Shabele region of Somalia in the past week.

Twelve persons had died in Delta State of Nigeria over an outbreak of Cholera.

Four of 12 suspected cases of Cholera had so far been confirmed in Harare, Zimbabwe.

A Cholera epidemic that broke out in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo at the beginning of 2007 had caused 1 826 cases and 43 deaths since 5 January 2007.

In Angola, an average of 90 cases of the potentially fatal intestinal infection were being reported each day in the province of Luanda, which included the capital, compared to an average of 15 to 20 cases before heavy rains triggered floods last week.