Under the patronage of His Excellency Dr. Kheir Eldin Abdellatif Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees October 6b University, the Microbiology and Immunology Department Faculty of Medicine October 6 University, held the seventh annual scientific symposium entitled (Recent viral epidemics).The symposium dated Sunday 9th November2014started at 10.30am with the subject (MERS _COV epidemics) presented by Dr. Esraa Hegazy Assistant lecturer of Microbiology and Immunology Faculty of Medicine Cairo University. The second lecture (Recent influenza epidemics)was presented by Dr.Hala Badawi Professor of microbiology Theodor Bilharz Institute. Dr. Amal Balbaa ,Professor of microbiology and immunology Cairo University,then presented her lecture about the (Ebola epidemic).Finally Dr. Mona Ghareeb Professor of immunology and Head of the department at Faculty of Medicine ,October 6 University gave the lecture(Infection control of viral epidemics) At the end of the day the participants expressed their gratitude and thankfulness to His Excellency Dr.Kheireldin Abdellatif for his sponsorship to this symposium.