South Australia Declares Adelaide Measles Outbreak Around Brighton School

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• Health09/21/2026@HealthDesk

  Measles Breaks Out Across Bangladesh

  Dhaka, Bangladesh

  

  Starts 03/15/2026ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins68% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 68%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidence199 days agoThe source^[1] dates the start only to "mid-March 2026", so the pin takes the middle of that month and leaves the end open: the outbreak is ongoing.

  A measles outbreak that began in mid-March 2026 has killed 909 people with suspected symptoms and confirmed nearly 20,000 cases, by the Directorate General of Health Services' count as of 10 September. It is still running.

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• Health09/30/2026@ThePinGang

  South-East Asia's Measles and Rubella Elimination Deadline Falls

  WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, Indraprastha Estate, New Delhi, IndiaWorld Health Organization

  

  Starts 12/31/2026DELAYEDDate confidence: DELAYEDThe date has movedHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all DELAYED pins6 years late68% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 68%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 5 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidencein 92 daysAt the Seventy-seventh Regional Committee on 10 October 2024 members "agreed to extend the target for elimination of measles and rubella by the Region, aspiring to achieve by 2026"; a year alone is taken as its last day.^[1]

  WHO South-East Asia's target to eliminate measles and rubella by 2026 reaches its deadline on 31 December, after being moved from 2020 to 2023 to 2026. The Regional Verification Commission warned in June that the target "may not be achieved" as outbreaks rise in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Thailand and Maldives.

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• Health09/30/2026@ThePinGang

  Bangladesh's Catch-Up Measles-Rubella Campaign Closes

  Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Mohakhali, Dhaka, BangladeshMinistry of Health and Family Welfare (Bangladesh)

  

  Starts 10/31/2026SCHEDULEDDate confidence: SCHEDULEDGiven as scheduledHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all SCHEDULED pins75% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 75%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or betterin 31 daysThe Daily Star^[1], 26 September 2026: "The campaign aims to cover an estimated 34 lakh children in the age group and will continue until October 31."

  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.

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• Health09/30/2026@ThePinGang

  PAHO: Americas Measles Passes 51,000 Cases in 2026

  Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USAPAHO

  

  Starts 09/01/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins78% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 78%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 5 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better29 days agoPAHO^[1][2][4] Situation Report #10 is titled '1 September 2026'; counts are for weeks 1-33 ending 22 August 2026.

  PAHO's Situation Report #10 reports 51,027 confirmed measles cases and 55 deaths in 17 countries and territories in epidemiological weeks 1-33 of 2026 (to 22 August), led by Guatemala, Mexico, the US and Canada.

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• Health09/30/2026@ThePinGang

  Uganda Starts Five-Day National Measles-Rubella Vaccination Campaign

  Kampala, UgandaUganda Ministry of Health

  

  10/01/2026 - 10/05/2026SCHEDULEDDate confidence: SCHEDULEDGiven as scheduledHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all SCHEDULED pins75% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 75%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 5 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or betterin 1 dayThe government's campaign notice and The Observer^[2] both give October 1-5, 2026 ("a five-day national measles-rubella vaccination campaign set for October").

  Uganda's Ministry of Health runs a nationwide measles-rubella booster campaign from 1 to 5 October 2026 for children under five regardless of past vaccination, aiming for about 7.47 million children after measles outbreaks in 18 districts this year.

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• Health09/30/2026@ThePinGang

  Victoria's H5 Bird Flu Poultry Housing Requirement Runs to 16 October

  Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaAgriculture Victoria

  

  Starts 10/16/2026SCHEDULEDDate confidence: SCHEDULEDGiven as scheduledHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all SCHEDULED pins75% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 75%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 5 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or betterin 16 daysThe requirement was extended "for another 28 days from September 19, 2026" (Latrobe Valley Express^[2], 22 Sep) and stays in place "until at least 16 October 2026", subject to review of disease activity.

  Agriculture Victoria extended for 28 days from 19 September the requirement that owners of 50 or more poultry in southern Victoria, including metropolitan Melbourne, confine birds away from wild birds, in place until at least 16 October 2026 and under review. H5 bird flu, first found in Australia in June, has not been detected in poultry.

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• Health09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  New Royal Adelaide Hospital Opens to Patients

  Royal Adelaide Hospital, Port Road, Adelaide, South Australia, AustraliaCelsus

  

  Starts 09/05/2017CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better9.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "New Royal Adelaide Hospital emergency department officially opens."

  The new Royal Adelaide Hospital opened its emergency department and began receiving patients, capping a large BIM-driven build delivered by the Celsus consortium.

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• Health09/30/2026@ThePinGang

  Vaccination Week in the Americas 2027 Begins

  Pan American Health Organization, 525 23rd Street NW, Washington, DC 20037, United StatesPan American Health Organization

  

  04/24/2027 - 05/01/2027ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins69% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 69%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidencein 206 daysEstimated: PAHO^[1][2][3] has not announced 2027 dates, but the week is held in the last week of April and the 2026 edition ran "From 25 April to 2 May, 2026" (24th annual), so the pin repeats that Saturday-to-Saturday slot from 24 April 2027.

  PAHO and every country and territory in the Americas mark their 25th Vaccination Week at the end of April 2027, the yearly push to catch up children and adults on vaccines as measles spreads across the region.

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• Health09/30/2026@ThePinGang

  Gavi Board Meets December 9-10, 2026 on Vaccine Programmes

  Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Chemin du Pommier 40, 1218 Le Grand-Saconnex, Geneva, SwitzerlandGavi, the Vaccine Alliance

  

  12/09/2026 - 12/10/2026SCHEDULEDDate confidence: SCHEDULEDGiven as scheduledHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all SCHEDULED pins75% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 75%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or betterin 70 daysGavi's^[1][2][3][4] governance calendar lists 2026 board meetings as "25-26 March", "1-2 July" and "9-10 December"; the meeting location is not stated on the page.

  The board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, holds its December 2026 meeting on 9-10 December, the governing body that oversees vaccine programmes for measles, malaria, cholera and other diseases in lower-income countries.

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• Health09/21/2026@HealthDesk

  The 1918 Flu Surfaces at Camp Funston

  Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kansas, United States

  

  Starts 03/04/1918ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins68% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 68%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidence108.6 years ago4 March 1918 is the first recorded case at Camp Funston, which is the earliest documented outbreak rather than a proven origin - the pandemic's beginning is genuinely disputed.^[1]

  A camp cook reported sick at Fort Riley's Camp Funston in Kansas, and within days hundreds of soldiers were down with influenza. It is the first recorded outbreak of the pandemic that killed more people than the war it travelled with - somewhere between 25 and 50 million.

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• Health09/30/2026@ThePinGang

  PAHO Reviews US and Mexico Measles Elimination Status

  Pan American Health Organization, 525 23rd Street NW, Washington, DC 20037, United StatesPan American Health Organization

  

  Starts 11/30/2026DELAYEDDate confidence: DELAYEDThe date has movedHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all DELAYED pins7 months late68% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 68%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 5 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidencein 61 daysPAHO^[1][2] says the review will occur "in November 2026, during the Commission's regular annual meeting" of the RVC, giving no day, so the pin takes the last day of November.

  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.

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• Health09/24/2026@HealthDesk

  Ferrero Recalls Belgian-Made Kinder Surprise in UK Over Salmonella

  Ferrero Ardenne, Rue de la Sambre, 6700 Arlon, BelgiumFerrero

  

  Starts 04/02/2022CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better4.5 years agoThe Food Standards Agency alert FSA-PRIN-22-2022 is dated '2 April 2022'.^[1]

  Ferrero recalled batches of Kinder Surprise 20g and 3x20g made in Belgium, best before 11 July to 7 October 2022, because they might carry Salmonella, in an outbreak Belgium's AFSCA linked to the Arlon plant.

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