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Un brote de sarampión que comenzó a mediados de marzo de 2026 ha causado 909 muertes de personas con síntomas sospechosos y casi 20.000 casos confirmados, según el recuento de la Dirección General de Servicios de Salud a 10 de septiembre. Sigue activo.

On 31 July 2026 NYC's Health Department declared the Upper East Side Legionnaires' cluster over, with 92 confirmed cases, 79 hospitalizations and 7 deaths, after 83 buildings cleaned their cooling towers.

At a 28 August 2026 press briefing in Abuja, NCDC said Nigeria had recorded more than 65,000 suspected cholera cases across 35 states and about 195 LGAs, with weekly cases well below the season's peak. It also cited over 10,000 confirmed diphtheria cases.

NYC's Health Department announced a likely community Legionnaires' cluster in Melrose and Morrisania (ZIP codes 10451, 10456): five confirmed cases and one death as of 10 September 2026. Insurance Journal later reported 14 positive cases and two deaths as of 18 September.

Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection reported on 17 September a locally acquired chikungunya case in a 55-year-old woman from Tai Kok Tsui who had no travel history. The city has recorded three cases in 2026 (one local, two imported) against 82 in 2025.

SA Health reported on 24 September three more measles cases in teenagers linked to an earlier case, its eighth of 2026 against seven in all of 2025. By 28 September the Brighton Secondary School cluster had five cases and the state total was nine, with 28 exposure sites listed.

Cambodia's Health Ministry reported on 28 September that a 49-year-old man in Oddar Meanchey province tested positive for H5N1, the country's sixth human case this year. He had direct contact with sick and dead chickens that the National Animal Health and Production Research Institute confirmed positive on 23 September, and he is isolated in hospital.

Pakistan's National Emergency Operations Centre announced on 29 September a wild poliovirus case in a 17-month-old girl from Khandar Khankhel union council, Domel tehsil, Bannu district, the fifth of 2026. Four of the five cases are from Bannu division; Pakistan reported 31 in 2025.

Bangladesh's health directorate (DGHS) reported six more dengue deaths in the 24 hours to 8 am on 29 September, taking the 2026 toll to 239, with 142 deaths in September alone, the highest month this year. Hospitals admitted 1,942 patients in the day and 77,672 since January.

Bangladesh's month-long catch-up measles-rubella drive for about 3.4 million children aged 6 to 59 months, launched on 26 September by the health minister, is due to run until 31 October. It targets children missed by earlier rounds during the country's worst measles outbreak.

PAHO's Regional Verification Commission will decide in November 2026 whether the United States and Mexico, each a year into sustained measles transmission, keep their elimination status; Canada and the Americas region already lost theirs in November 2025.