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This report describes an increase in dengue cases reported during 2024.

This report describes survey results from backyard flock owners' attitudes towards avian influenza.

WHO has published a Disease Outbreak News (DON) on Hantavirus cluster linked to cruise ship travel, Multi-country. The DON is available on the WHO website at the following link:https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2026-DON600Situation at a glanceOn 2 May 2026, a cluster of passengers with severe respiratory illness aboard a cruise ship was reported to the World Health Organiz

This report describes 139 human exposures to cats infected with A(H5N1) in Los Angeles, California.

This report describes a fatal human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Washington.

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This report describes 50 large tuberculosis outbreaks in 23 states during 2017-2023.

This report describes an increase in eastern equine encephalitis in northern Vermont during 2023-2024.

This report describes flu vaccination coverage among nursing home residents and health care providers working in nursing homes.

This report describes contact tracing following mpox exposures during commercial air travel.

This report describes two clusters of invasive of Haemophilus influenzae type b among adults with special risk factors in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington.

This report describes four cases of tetanus among children who had not received a primary tetanus toxoid-containing virus series before exposure.

This report describes tetanus surveillance in the United States from 2009-2023

This report describes the emergence of drug-resistant shigellosis in the United States during 2011-2023.

This report describes severe illness associated with eating mushroom-containing chocolate products.

Read about Dr. Shah Fahad, a medical entomologist and  FETP Frontline-trained field epidemiologist, and his team in rapidly detecting, investigating, and identifying a case of Dengue Fever in the Gilgit-Baltistan Region. Rising temperatures in previously temperate regions like Gilgit-Baltistan in northeastern Pakistan are turning them into emerging hotspots for this mosquito-borne disease.https://

This report describes an increase in reports linked to kratom-containing kava products in the United States from 2000-2025.

This report describes influenza and COVID-19 vaccination coverage among health care providers in the United States during the 2024-25 respiratory virus season.

WHO/Europe, IFRC Europe and UNICEF ECARO have launched a toolkit for community mapping to support emergency preparedness and responses for public health emergencies. This toolkit brings together years of lessons from COVID-19, the Mpox outbreak, the Ukraine emergency, natural hazards and other crises across the region.This joint WHO–IFRC–UNICEF resource provides a clear, practical, and scalable ap

This report describes kratom-related exposures in the United States from 2015-2024.