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WHO has requested information from Russia following reports of plague outbreaks. There is also unconfirmed information about another suspected case.
Fritzon believes that the EU now urgently needs to receive information from the World Health Organization WHO. This is to be able to take measures and ensure preparedness, for example when it comes to stocks of antibiotics.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on Russia to provide additional information following the outbreak of plague in the country.
There are also unconfirmed media reports about a second suspected case.

An audit shows that 32 children suffered life-threatening bleeding after throat operations in private clinics. Region Stockholm's experts suggested moving interventions to emergency hospitals, but the proposal has encountered political resistance and lobbying.

Strama recommends saline as a nasal spray to prevent colds. A British study with 14,000 participants shows a 20 percent reduction in sick days and lower antibiotic use if treatment is started early at the first symptoms.
A 28-year-old researcher from the Irkutsk scientific research institute against plague for Siberia and the Far East has died, but Russian authorities deny that the cause of death is plague and indicate pneumonia as the probable cause, despite earlier rumors of infection during a work trip to Buryatia and hospital closure in Shelekhov.

A 28-year-old laboratory assistant in Russian Shelechov has died after an accident with plague bacteria. The WHO has completed the infection tracing and states that no contacts have shown symptoms of the disease. The risk of spread outside the region is assessed as very low.

A man in his 50s has died following complications following a heart transplant. This after he and another patient at Karolinska University Hospital in August were mistakenly given calcium chloride instead of potassium chloride during surgery.

A first Ebola case of the variant bundibugyo virus has been confirmed in Kenya after a person died after traveling from the Democratic Republic of Congo via Uganda.