NewsDesk @bactiman63 Health officials in South Africa report four laboratory-confirmed measles have been reported in the City of Cape Town from 24 January 2023 to 17 February 2023. Even though all the...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the report of multiple typhoid fever outbreaks in South Africa, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases reported on the clusters (small localized outbreaks)...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In South Africa, approximately 10 human rabies cases are reported annually, largely as a result of exposure to rabid dogs. A total of eight human cases have been confirmed...

Following last week’s announcement that two rabies cases have been confirmed in Khayelitsha, no further cases have been detected. Persons and animals in contact with the original two cases have been...

By NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Western Cape Department of Agriculture Veterinary Services confirmed that they had received laboratory results confirming rabies in two dogs in Khayelitsha in the City of Cape...

Large populations of potentially deadly cryptococcal fungi have been found on woody debris collected from old trees in two public areas in the centre of Cape Town and the Northern Cape, South Africa. After...

In a follow-up to a report earlier this week, the typhoid fever “non-outbreak” in South Africa has grown in Gauteng province and now cases are being reported from Western Cape. Gauteng Health...