NewsDesk @bactiman63 During the past month, South African health officials have reported four additional cholera cases, bring the total to 10 since early February. All new cases were detected in Gauteng...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews South Africa health officials reported the first human rabies case of 2022. Rabies was confirmed in a four-year-old child from the Eastern Cape Province. The child was...

In a follow-up on the listeriosis outbreak that has affected South Africa since the beginning of 2017, as of 20 February 2018, 915 laboratory-confirmed cases of listeriosis have been reported to the National...

In a follow-up on the measles outbreak in Gauteng Province, South Africa, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reported 17 cases of measles in Gauteng from March – April 2017. This...

There have been 6 confirmed cases of measles in Johannesburg, as at 15 March 2017. The cases were mostly primary school children, previously unvaccinated against measles. Additionally there has been one...

The Bahamas Ministry of Health and its agencies including the Public Hospitals Authority, Department of Public Health and the Pan American Health Organization in an update Monday maintains that a suspected...

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The South Africa Health Ministry is reporting the first case of imported Zika vius in a Colombian businessman visiting the country, according to South African media.  Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi...

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...

An Outbreak Response Team was activated in Gauteng province, South Africa after at least four cases of typhoid fever were reported in Johannesburg this month. The cases were identified in the Hillbrow,...