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.

Avian influenza, Chile

Thu Sep 3rd 2026      16 reports (1 new)

- New HPAI (H5N1) outbreaks in backyard poultry in Los Lagos Region, Chile; 15 cumulative cases amid persistent risk at wild-bird interface

Undiagnosed event, India

Thu Sep 3rd 2026      3 reports (1 new)

- RFI: One child death and about 50 hospitalizations after chloroquine administration at a medical camp in Andhra Pradesh, India

Hepatitis C, Taiwan

Thu Sep 3rd 2026      1 report (1 new)

- Iatrogenic acute hepatitis C cluster of 11 cases at a Banqiao clinic in Taiwan; lookback investigation of 1118 injection recipients underway

Legionellosis, France

Thu Sep 3rd 2026      5 reports (1 new)

- Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Savoie, France: Epidemiological link to a restaurant’s misting system identified

Norovirus, Belgium

Thu Sep 3rd 2026      1 report (1 new)

- Norovirus outbreak with 175 cases at Dutch university orientation camp in Antwerp Province, Belgium, prompting cross-border response

African swine fever, Spain

Thu Sep 3rd 2026      28 reports (1 new)

- Second consecutive week with no new African swine fever detections in wild boars in Catalonia, Spain, amid ongoing containment efforts

Dengue, Marshall Islands

Thu Sep 3rd 2026      2 reports (1 new)

- Dengue fever outbreak in Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands: DENV-1 confirmed, 40 cases with active community transmission