Outbreaks and Emergencies Bulletin, Week 10: 4 - 10 March 2017
WHO AFRO is currently monitoring 30 events, two at Grade 3, six at Grade 2, two at Grade 1 and twenty ungraded events.
This week one new event is reported: a Cyclone in Madagascar.
The update also focuses on key ongoing events in the region, namely the two grade 3 humanitarian crises in Nigeria and South Sudan as well as outbreaks of Necrotising Cellulitis/Fasciitis in Sao Tome and Principe, Hepatitis E in Chad, Cholera in Democratic Republic of Congo, Monkeypox in Congo, Measles in Guinea and the pre-famine situation affecting a number of countries in the Horn of Africa.