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World Health Organization (WHO) released data that show that the world held the line against setbacks to malaria prevention, testing, and treatment services in 2021.
This year's World malaria report estimated 619,000 malaria-related fatalities in 2021 compared to 568,000 in 2019.
The WHO's World Malaria Report for 2022 highlights the progress towards global targets and describes opportunities and challenges for curbing and eliminating this vaccine-preventable disease.

The Health Department of the City of Columbas, Ohio, published an updated online report today, revealing 63 confirmed measles cases in (60) unvaccinated people, of which 25 were hospitalized but with no related fatalities.
About 70% of these measles cases are in children less than five years of age.
The data as of December 8, 2022, reflects an increase of 13 measles cases in central Ohio over the past week.
Columbus health officials reported people later confirmed with measles recently visited these locations:

Eurosurveillance recently published a Rapid Communication report focused on a case series of Belgian patients presenting with severe Mpox disease following post-exposure preventive vaccination (PEPV) or after off-label primary prophylactic vaccination (PPV) in non-primed individuals.
Thus far, the current control measures have positively impacted the Mpox outbreak, as indicated by the sharp decline in new infections.