This digest highlights the latest events and signals submitted to the BEACON platform—a global system for tracking and analyzing emerging biological threats. Stay informed with real-time updates from around the world, curated to help you monitor developments affecting human, animal, and environmental health.

Influenza, New Zealand

Sat Aug 22nd 2026      1 report (1 new)

- New Zealand records a decade-high weekly severe respiratory illness hospitalization rate amid A(H3N2) subclade K and other respiratory viruses

Chikungunya, France

Sat Aug 22nd 2026      12 reports (1 new)

- Metropolitan France reports 25 autochthonous chikungunya cases across three local transmission events

Salmonellosis, USA

Sat Aug 22nd 2026      34 reports (1 new)

- Multistate Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) and Salmonella outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts reaches 55 cases across 15 US states

Pathogenic Escherichia coli, USA

Sat Aug 22nd 2026      5 reports (1 new)

- Multistate Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) and Salmonella outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts reaches 55 cases across 15 US states

Cholera, Myanmar

Sat Aug 22nd 2026      2 reports (1 new)

- Further increase in diarrheal illness in Yangon, Myanmar, with approximately 500 hospitalized and nine cholera cases confirmed

New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), USA

Sat Aug 22nd 2026      15 reports (1 new)

- 21 Aug 2026 – 46 confirmed animal cases of New World screwworm in Texas and New Mexico, USA