Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Darwin warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 6000 ft (1800 m) altitude or flight level 060 and is moving at 5 kts in SE direction. The full report is as follows: FVAU01 at 02:31 UTC, 06/09/19 from ADRM VA ADVISORY DTG: 20190906/0230Z VAAC: DARWIN VOLCANO: DUKONO 268010 PSN: N0141 E12753 AREA: INDONESIA SUMMIT…
Red alert for tropical cyclone LINGLING-19. Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 15.047 million.
From 02/09/2019 to 06/09/2019, a Hurricane/Typhoon > 74 mph (maximum wind speed of 231 km/h) LINGLING-19 was active in NWPacific. The cyclone affects these countries: Japan, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of, China (vulnerability High). Estimated population affected by category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 15.047 million.
Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 – Republic of Ghana
In Nigeria and West Africa, a cVDPV2 outbreak originating from Jigawa state, Nigeria, continues to spread. In Ghana, cVDPV2 was isolated from an acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) case in Ando-Nyamanu, Chereponi district, Northern Region, bordering Togo. The case was a two-year old girl who had experienced onset of paralysis on 27 July 2019. Stool samples were taken on 27 and 28 July 2019, and sent to the National Polio Laboratory at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research for further laboratory investigations. The sample tested positive for cVDPV2 on 17 August 2019. Sequencing of the sample from the AFP case revealed 25 nucleotide differences compared to the reference Sabin 2 and 6 nucleotides, with the closest sequencing match made with an AFP case originating from Jigsaw state, Nigeria from 2018. Earlier, a related cVDPV2 strain had been isolated from an environmental sample, collected on 11 June 2019, from Northern Region in Ghana. Both isolated viruses were linked to an outbreak originating in Jigawa, Nigeria, in 2018. In the past, this same strain had spread within Nigeria, and internationally to the Republic of Niger, Benin, and Cameroon.
The last indigenous wild poliovirus was reported in 2000. This is the first ever reported cVDPV2 outbreak reported in the country.
Reventador Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EM OBS IN STLT.
Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Washington (VAAC) issued the following report: FVXX20 at 22:24 UTC, 05/09/19 from KNES VA ADVISORY DTG: 20190905/2223Z VAAC: WASHINGTON VOLCANO: REVENTADOR 352010 PSN: S0005 W07740 AREA: ECUADOR SUMMIT ELEV: 11686 FT [3562 M] ADVISORY NR: 2019/961 INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. VOLCAT. ERUPTION DETAILS: VA EM OBS IN STLT. RMK: WE HAVE RECEIVED INFORMATION…