This week

From the weekly government reports of Pakistan and Sri Lanka. United States: arriving; its first weekly run was due 26 October. Published, not read yet: Canada, Finland, Germany, Japan, South Korea and Switzerland. Waiting for the publisher's yes: Norway.

48 illnesses across 2 countries. 2 are above usual somewhere this week.

Each illness against its usual, in each country

Dengue Sri Lanka Far above usual · 4.7× Pakistan Well below usual · 0.5×
Meningitis Sri Lanka Above usual · 1.7× Pakistan Below usual · 0.7×
Chickenpox Sri Lanka Usual · 1.2× Pakistan Usual · 1.2×
Leishmaniasis Sri Lanka Usual · 1.2×
Mumps Pakistan Usual · 1.1×
Flu-like illness Pakistan Usual · 1.1×
Skin leishmaniasis Pakistan Usual · 1.0×
Dog bite Pakistan Usual · 1.0×
Bloody diarrhoea Pakistan Usual · 0.9×
Chikungunya Pakistan Usual · 0.9×
Hepatitis B, C and D Pakistan Usual · 0.9×
Pneumonia in under-fives Pakistan Usual · 0.9×
Sudden limb weakness Pakistan Usual · 0.9×
Severe chest infection Pakistan Usual · 0.8×
Hepatitis A and E Pakistan Usual · 0.8×
Dysentery Sri Lanka Usual · 0.8×
HIV and AIDS Pakistan Usual · 0.8×
Measles Pakistan Usual · 0.8×
Non-cholera diarrhoea Pakistan Below usual · 0.8×
Tuberculosis Sri Lanka Below usual · 0.8× Pakistan Below usual · 0.7×
Malaria Pakistan Below usual · 0.7×
Gonorrhoea Pakistan Below usual · 0.7×
Typhus Sri Lanka Below usual · 0.7×
Typhoid Pakistan Below usual · 0.6×
Leptospirosis Sri Lanka Below usual · 0.6×
Whooping cough Pakistan Below usual · 0.6×
Food poisoning Sri Lanka Well below usual · 0.3×
Suspected cholera Pakistan Well below usual · 0.3×
Anthrax Pakistan Too few weeks to compare
Brucellosis Pakistan Too few cases to compare
Covid-19 Pakistan Too few weeks to compare
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever Pakistan Too few weeks to compare
Diphtheria Pakistan Too few weeks to compare
Encephalitis Sri Lanka Too few cases to compare
Enteric fever Sri Lanka Too few cases to compare
Hepatitis B and C Pakistan Too few weeks to compare
Leprosy Sri Lanka Too few weeks to compare Pakistan Too few weeks to compare
Mpox Pakistan Too few weeks to compare
Newborn rubella Pakistan Too few weeks to compare
Newborn tetanus Pakistan Too few weeks to compare
Organ leishmaniasis Pakistan Too few weeks to compare
Probable diphtheria Pakistan Too few cases to compare
Rabies Sri Lanka Too few cases to compare Pakistan Too few weeks to compare
Rabies or a dog bite Pakistan Too few weeks to compare
Rubella Pakistan Too few weeks to compare
Sudden-onset hepatitis Pakistan Too few weeks to compare
Syphilis Pakistan Too few cases to compare
Viral hepatitis Sri Lanka Too few cases to compare

How this is worked out. The last four weeks against the same weeks of the two years before, for the whole country. What "usual" means.

Sources. Epidemiology Unit, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka, weekly report; Field Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Division, National Institutes of Health, Islamabad, weekly report.