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(Click for table) Current outbreaks in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
Table last updated on 15 September 2023. For updates on coronavirus diseases 2019 (COVID-19), please check the regional and global dashboards.
| Countries | Diseases | Cases | Deaths | CFR% | Event date |
| Afghanistan | Acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) | 195336 | 94 | 0.05% | January 23 |
| Iraq | Cholera | 1270 | 6 | 0.47% | August 23 |
| Lebanon | Cholera | 2197 | 0 | 0.00% | July 23 |
| Somalia | Cholera | 14626 | 39 | 0.27% | January 23 |
| Sudan | Acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) | 2197 | 81 | 3.69% | June 23 |
| Syrian Arab Republic | Cholera | 147290 | 4 | 0.00% | June 23 |
| Yemen | Cholera | 6242 | 8 | 0.13% | January 23 |
| Pakistan | Cholera | 128 | 0 | 0.00% | January 23 |
| Afghanistan | Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) | 1190 | 110 | 9.24% | January 23 |
| Iraq | Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) | 2058 | 127 | 6.17% | January 23 |
| Pakistan | Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) | 77 | 21 | 27.27% | January 23 |
| Pakistan | Dengue Fever | 11361 | 0 | 0.00% | May 23 |
| Sudan | Dengue Fever | 5061 | 24 | 0.47% | January 23 |
| Yemen | Dengue Fever | 28880 | 28 | 0.10% | January 23 |
| Afghanistan | Dengue Fever | 1022 | 1 | 0.10% | January 23 |
| Somalia | Dengue Fever | 755 | 1 | 0.13% | September 23 |
| Saudi Arabia | Dengue Fever | 2259 | 0 | 0.00% | March 23 |
| Pakistan | Diphtheria | 338 | 25 | 7.40% | January 23 |
| Pakistan | Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) | 192 | 2 | 1.04% | January 22 |
| Egypt | Legionnaires’ disease | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | September 23 |
| Morocco | Legionnaires’ disease | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | October 23 |
| United Arab Emirates | Legionnaires’ disease | 3 | 0 | 0.00% | March 23 |
| Djibouti | Malaria | 25078 | 0 | 0.00% | January 23 |
| Islamic Republic of Iran | Malaria | 5788 | 0 | 0.00% | January 23 |
| Pakistan | Malaria | 1332612 | 0 | 0.00% | January 23 |
| Sudan | Malaria | 617624 | 2 | 0.00% | April 23 |
| Afghanistan | Malaria | 1546 | 0 | 0.00% | July 23 |
| Afghanistan | Measles | 22682 | 62 | 0.27% | January 23 |
| Djibouti | Measles | 106 | 0 | 0.00% | January 23 |
| Islamic Republic of Iran | Measles | 3675 | 0 | 0.00% | January 23 |
| Iraq | Measles | 2000 | 0 | 0.00% | January 23 |
| Jordan | Measles | 51 | 0 | 0.00% | April 23 |
| Lebanon | Measles | 313 | 0 | 0.00% | January 23 |
| Libya | Measles | 1142 | 0 | 0.00% | January 23 |
| Pakistan | Measles | 20736 | 0 | 0.00% | January 23 |
| Somalia | Measles | 10624 | 0 | 0.00% | January 23 |
| Sudan | Measles | 4334 | 127 | 2.93% | April 23 |
| Northwest Syria | Measles | 6584 | 0 | 0.00% | January 23 |
| Yemen | Measles | 46070 | 374 | 0.81% | January 23 |
| Oman | Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | December 22 |
| United Arab Emirates | Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | July 23 |
| Bahrain | Mpox | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | September 22 |
| Egypt | Mpox | 3 | 0 | 0.00% | September 22 |
| Islamic Republic of Iran | Mpox | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | August 22 |
| Jordan | Mpox | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | September 22 |
| Lebanon | Mpox | 27 | 0 | 0.00% | June 22 |
| Morocco | Mpox | 3 | 0 | 0.00% | June 22 |
| Oman | Mpox | 3 | 0 | 0.00% | October 23 |
| Pakistan | Mpox | 7 | 0 | 0.00% | April 23 |
| Qatar | Mpox | 5 | 0 | 0.00% | July 22 |
| Saudi Arabia | Mpox | 8 | 0 | 0.00% | July 22 |
| Sudan | Mpox | 19 | 1 | 5.26% | August 22 |
| United Arab Emirates | Mpox | 16 | 0 | 0.00% | May 22 |
| Afghanistan | Poliomyelitis (Wild Polio 1) | 6 | 0 | 0.00% | May 23 |
| Pakistan | Poliomyelitis (Wild Polio 1) | 3 | 0 | 0.00% | February 23 |
| Somalia | Circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV2) | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | January 23 |
| Yemen | Circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV2) | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | August 23 |
| Syrian Arab Republic | Influenza B | 165 | 26 | 15.76% | December 22 |
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