NewsDesk @bactiman63 South Africa’s National Department of Health announced on Thursday that the cholera death toll now stands at 31, following the outbreak in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria. According...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The cholera death toll in Hammanskraal has reached 23 as of May this past weekend, according to the Gauteng Department of Health (GDoH). In addition, 77 patients were still admitted...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 South African health officials report a second Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in the country this year in a 32-year-old man from Burgersdorp, Eastern Cape Province. The...

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reported an additional  confirmed Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) case in a 54-year-old...

An outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) has been reported in the Heilbron area of the Free State Province in May 2019, according to the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry Monday. This follows...

Following confirmation of a Rift Valley fever (RVF) outbreak in sheep on a farm in Jacobsdal area, Free State in May 2018, human and vector surveillance was conducted on the affected farm by Provincial...

An isolated outbreak of Rift Valley fever (RVF) has been detected on a single farm in the Jacobsdal area of Free State, South Africa, bordering Northern Cape. A total of 250 sheep deaths/abortions were...

Health officials in South Africa announced that they have confirmed the source of the listerioisis outbreak, that as of the end of February, 945 cases and 176 deaths have been reported since Jan. 2017. Minister...

An eight-year-old boy from the Ficksburg area in Free State province, South Africa has died from rabies after a dog bite, making him the fifth human rabies case in the country this year. According to...