The South Australian Department of Health has reported 3 confirmed cases and 5 suspected cases of Q fever infection who lived near a goat abattoir at Waikerie in the state's Riverland.

On 13 June 2007, health officials of Cambodia reported 7 Dengue Fever deaths. All the cases were children living in a remote village close to the capital. On the same day, a doctor who ran 4 hospitals in the country reported that his hospitals had treated 1 254 cases of severe Dengue Fever in children in the first week of June.

On 20 June 2007, the government of Czech Republic confirmed the country's first outbreak of Avian Influenza infection in poultry. Part of that 6 000 affected turkey flock in Usti nad Orlici was killed by the disease.

In Egypt, a 4-year-old boy from the Upper Egyptian province of Qena has been confirmed as the country’s 37th human case of H5N1 Avian Influenza infection. He was hospitalised on 21 June with high fever after being exposed to sick birds. He was the third human case of H5N1 Avian Influenza infection in the past month coming from the same province.

In the first 5 months this year, a total of 106 cases of Lyme Disease have been reported in Estonia, of which 40(38%) cases were found in Saaremaa which is an isolated island off its coast. In the year of 2006, 482 cases of Lyme disease occurred in Estonia, of which 154(32%) were reported from Saaremaa.

[Editor’s note: Lyme Disease is an infectious disease caused by spirochaete. The disease is characterised by a distinctive skin lesion, general discomfort, fatigue, fever, headache, stiff neck, muscle and joint pain, and lymph node swelling. Neurological, cardiac and joint abnormalities may occur in varying combinations over months to years. Lyme Disease is transmitted by ticks. It is not transmitted from person-to-person. Wild rodents and deer are important host of the vector tick species. To prevent acquiring the disease, travellers should wear light-coloured clothing that covers legs and arms, tuck trousers into socks and apply tick repellent such as DEET to skin or permethrin to sleeve and trouser legs.]

Health officials in Nuremberg of southern Germany confirmed that 3 wild birds have died of the H5N1 Avian Influenza infection.

So far, a total of 532 suspected cases of Chikungunya Fever have been reported in Kerala district this year. The cases came from 7 areas of the district, namely Manambur, Vellanad, Vellarada, Perumkadavila, Nedumangad, Neyyattinkara and Attingal.

In Pekanbaru, the provincial capital of Riau, a 3-year-old girl who had contact history of dead chicken has tested positive for H5N1 Avian Influenza. She was the 101st confirmed human case of Avian Influenza infection in Indonesia.

(Source: ProMED-mail 23 June 2007)

The number of Malaria patients has sharply increased in June among communities of Burmese refugees and migrants on the Thailand-Myanmar border. Seven Burmese died from Malaria near the Three Pagodas Pass, on the border with Thailand's Kanchanaburi Province. This indicated that Malaria was increasing in Myanmar.

An outbreak of Measles had killed 60 children in Borno of Nigeria in recent week. The epidemic broke out in the state capital, Maiduguri, a few days ago and had affected some 400 children.

(Source: ProMED-mail 20 June 2007)

On 12 and 15 June 2007, health officials of the Philippines reported 4 Dengue Fever deaths . Three of them were from southern Negros Occidental Province and 1 was a 6-year-old boy from Camarines Norte Province.

Russian officials reported that wild ducks infected with Avian Influenza were found in the Altai territory, the Tomsk region, Buryatia and the Ust-ordyn Buryat autonomous district of Siberia. As of 19 June, no poultry was affected by the disease in Siberia of Russia.

(Source: ProMED-mail 20 June 2007)

As at 13 June 2007, Stavropol region of Russia had registered 23 confirmed cases of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever which was 2 times higher than it was last year. Cases were distributed in 12 districts - 5 cases in Neftekumsk district, 4 in Apansenkovsk, 2 each in Budenovskiy, Ipatovskiy, Krasnogvardeyskiy, Levokumskiy, and 1 each in Aleksandrovskiy, Arzgirskiy, Blagodarnenskiy, Izobilnenskiy, Kurskiy, and Novoselitskiy. Most cases had history of bitten by tick or removing tick from the body by bare hands.

(Source: ProMED-mail 21 June 2007)

So far, there were a total of 56 animal cases of Rabies in the Republic of Udmurtia. Both fox and stray dogs were found carrying the infection.

The Dengue Fever situation in Singapore worsened in 2007. The total number of cases of Dengue Fever and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever in Week 25 (from 17 to 23 June 2007) was 349 compared with 87 in the same period in 2006. The cumulative total so far was 3 236 which has doubled the figure in the same period in 2006.

On 17 June 2007, health officials of Taiwan reported 4 Dengue Fever cases and 1 Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever case. All of them had travel history to Vietnam in the period from May to June this year. So far, there have been 36 imported Dengue Fever cases, 22 of which were from Indonesia, 9 from Vietnam and 3 from Thailand.

In Togo, an outbreak of H5N1 Avian Influenza occurred early this month in a poultry farm at Sigbehoue, about 45 km east of the capital Lome.

In March, a 4-year-old child in Telmanivskyi administrative district of Donetsk region died of Rabies. An epidemic of Rabies was evolving among the domestic and wild animals in that region, where the disease could be found in animals in 16 different areas.

Health officials of Vietnam confirmed the second death due to H5N1 Avian Influenza this year. The patient was a 28-year-old woman. Her infection was first reported in mid June and she subsequently died on 21 June. She lived in a village in the northern province of Ha Nam, where her family raised 16 chickens whereas ducks in the village she lived had died of unknown reason. A total of 5 cases have been reported in this country since May 2007 and 44 deaths have reported since the outbreak started in 2003.

It was reported that 690 ducks and chickens had died at 8 farms in Bac Giang province, Vietnam. H5N1 Avian Influenza virus was found among the dead birds. Officials have slaughtered the remaining birds in the farms.