The health official in the Mainland reported an outbreak of H5N1 Avian Influenza occurred on 1 March 2007 among poultry in Chengguan Village near Lhasa which resulted in the death of 680 fowl.

The Ministry of Health in Laos had reported the country’s first death from H5N1 Avian Influenza. The 15-year-old female from Vientiane died on 7 March after being hospitalised in neighbouring Thailand.

A fresh case of highly-virulent Avian Influenza was discovered at a poultry farm in Anseong, south of Seoul of South Korea.

Russia had confirmed outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of Avian Influenza in 2 villages in the Republic of Adygeya.

In Kuwait, 2 new cases of Avian Influenza were found in Jahra and Farwaniya respectively. The total number of H5N1 cases now stood at 52.

In Afghanistan, the H5N1 Avian Influenza virus had been confirmed in 6 additional areas: the Khogiani, Rodat and Bati Kot districts of Nangarhar province, Khas Kunar and Kuz Kunar in Kunar province, and in the Shah Shahid area of Kabul.

In Egypt, the health officials confirmed the 24th human case of Avian Influenza in the country. The 4-year-old child who lived in Cairo, was diagnosed with e disease.

In Bekasi of Indonesia, 98 people were diagnosed with Chikungunya Fever after the flood in February. The disease was spreading rapidly and the number was expected to rise.

As of 2 March 2007, 500 people had fallen ill with Mumps in the town of Plovdiv in Bulgaria. The most susceptible group includes those who were born in the period 1982-1988 because they were not vaccinated. The 1st case appeared in western Bulgaria. Now there were affected people in the localities of Varna, Burgas, Sofia, and Plovdiv.

In Uganda, the Ministry of Health had announced that the pneumonic Plague that hit Masindi district had been contained. In the last 2 weeks, 11 of the 19 cases had been discharged. No new cases have been reported in the same period.

In Banadir of Somalia, at least 40 children with Cholera were admitted to hospital in early March. In Gedo of southern Somalia, 9 children and an old woman died from Cholera.

In Malakal of Sudan, Cholera infected 81 people and caused 11 deaths.

In Angola, 221 people, out of more than 5 000 cases, died of Cholera in Huila province since April 2006. About 610 Cholera cases, from which 10 resulted in deaths, were registered from January to 6 March 2007 in Luanda.

Outbreaks of Meningococcal Meningitis had been recorded in 7 other West African countries in 2007. As of 2 March 2007, the death toll in Burkina Faso rose to 324, which was by far the hardest hit country in the region, with almost 1 000 additional people infected in the last week bringing the total number of recorded cases to 3 625. Outbreaks had been recorded in 5 out of 53 health districts, with 14 other districts on alert. Elsewhere in the region the worst hit country was Cote d'Ivoire with 100 cases and 28 deaths followed by, 84 cases and 14 deaths in Niger, 73 cases and 6 deaths in Mali and 68 cases and 16 deaths in Benin. Other cases had been reported in Ghana, Togo and Guinea.

In Peru, the Ministry of Health reported 527 cases of vampire bat bites between July 2006 and 15 February 2007 from Puno and Madre de Dios. More than 20 people were claimed by Rabies infection after the bite since last December.

In Paraguay, 10 people had died of Dengue Fever, and more than 15 000 had been infected with the disease in the last 2 months.

More than 167 of the ship's 1 200 passengers of a cruise ship "Ryndam" and at least a dozen crew members contracted gastroenteritis. The cruise ship ended its 10-day voyage in San Diego, the USA. In summer last year, 110 passengers were sickened by Norovirus infection.