Source: World Health Organization
Country: Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe
Introduction
In this issue, a general overview of outbreaks that occurred within the WHO African Region between January and April 2012 is provided as well as a summary of ongoing outbreaks as reported by the Member States.
Overview of reported outbreaks in WHO African Region Based on data received from the Early Warning System through the Event Management System (EMS)*, 47 public health events were reported to the Regional Office covering the period January - April 2012 of which 89% were due to infectious diseases. The distribution of these events by hazard and country is shown in Table 1 and Figure 1 respectively.