Summary
As of 29 October 2015, the global number of reported Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus cases reached 1611, including 575 deaths (case–fatality rate of 35.8%). In Saudi Arabia the total number of reported cases reached 1272 (79.5% of the global number) with a case–fatality rate of 42.5%.
Since the start of the outbreak on 15 September 2015, the Ministry of Health in Iraq has reported 2217 laboratory confirmed cholera cases with two related deaths from 15 out of 19 governorates. An estimated 250 000 displaced persons will be targeted during the oral cholera vaccine campaigns to be conducted in the first week of November.
In Sudan, a total of 200 suspected viral haemorrhagic fever, including 103 deaths were reported from South, East, Central, West and North Darfur.