WHO: Global Alert and Response (GAR) – Disease Outbreak News [to 1 March 2014]

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WHO: Global Alert and Response (GAR) – Disease Outbreak News
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_03_12/en/index.html

:: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update 28 February 2014
On 3 and 15 February 2014, the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia announced two additional   laboratory-confirmed cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection… WHO does not advise special screening at points of entry with regard to this event nor does it currently recommend the application of any travel or trade restrictions.

:: Human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus – update 27 February 2014
…The overall risk assessment has not changed…
:: Human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus – update 27 February 2014
:: Human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus – update 24 February 2014