The following syndromes have been flagged:
- Acute Fever and Rash: Palau
- Diarrhoea: French Polynesia, Kiribati, Tonga
- Influenza-Like illness: Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Tonga
- Prolonged Fever: Tonga
Other updates
Diarrhoea
Outbreak ongoing in French Polynesia with two deaths ( one 5 months old and one 7 months old) – rotavirus has been isolated. The weekly number of cases is increasing. As of week ending 30 August, 47% of the cases were in children less than 4 years of age.
Chikungunya
There were four new cases in the week ending 30 August in Marshall Islands, a total of 1314 cases since the beginning of the outbreak in early February 2015.
Dengue
Serotype-3 outbreaks are ongoing in American Samoa and Samoa.
American Samoa: As of 2 September there have been 370 cases since May 2015, including 32 new cases in the past week. Of these cases; 133 were hospitalised.
Meningococcemia
Fiji: three cases of suspected meningococcemia occurred in the week ending 30 Aug 2015. The cases were siblings in the same household. All cases were admitted in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit; one of which succumbed to the illness. No further suspected cases have been reported.
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)
Between 26 and 28 August 2015 WHO has received notification of 4 additional cases of MERS-CoV infection, including 1 death. All these cases are associated with an outbreak currently occurring in a hospital in Amman city, Jordan.
Between 24 and 25 August 2015, Saudi Arabia notified WHO of 15 additional cases of MERS-CoV infection, including 2 deaths. Eleven (11) of these reported cases are associated with a MERS-CoV outbreak currently occurring in a hospital in Riyadh city.
Globally, since September 2012, WHO has been notified of 1,493 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with MERS-CoV, including at least 527 related deaths.
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
There were 3 confirmed cases of EVD reported in the week to 30 August: 2 in Guinea and 1 in Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone case is the first in the country for over 2 weeks.
There have been a total of 28,073 cases with 11 290 deaths of EVD in these three countries as of 30 August 2015.