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.

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Kazakhstan

Tue Sep 1st 2026      4 reports (1 new)

- First confirmed Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever case in Atyrau Region, Kazakhstan, a previously non-endemic region, amid 36 nationwide cases

Tularemia, Latvia

Tue Sep 1st 2026      1 report (1 new)

- Increase in reported tularemia cases in Latvia exceeds decade-long baseline

Rabies, USA

Tue Sep 1st 2026      16 reports (1 new)

- Concurrent wildlife rabies cases in USA and evidence of persistent underdiagnosis in humans

Trypanosomiasis, Zambia

Tue Sep 1st 2026      1 report (1 new)

- East African trypanosomiasis reported in two hunters in Luangwa Valley, Eastern Province, Zambia

Marine toxin poisoning, Brazil

Tue Sep 1st 2026      2 reports (1 new)

- Ciguatera fish poisoning cluster in Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco, Brazil, during peak season, amid four-year endemic surveillance

Gastroenteritis, Portugal

Tue Sep 1st 2026      2 reports (1 new)

- Follow-up report: Azores multi-island acute gastroenteritis outbreak; laboratory-confirmed norovirus on Faial and São Miguel

Dengue, Sri Lanka

Tue Sep 1st 2026      10 reports (1 new)

- Sri Lanka dengue cases decline through August after July peak; cumulative 2026 total nears 95 500 with 72 deaths