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Painkiller: Big Pharma and the opioid epidemic

The sales team for Purdue Pharma worked relentlessly to persuade doctors to prescribe OxyContin for pain relief

Downward trend in deaths due to bird flu in the Western Cape

More than 18 000 birds have died to date, the majority of them being the wild Cape cormorant seabirds on Dyer Island

West Africa readies for Ebola battle

Guinea is fighting the virus with a vaccine used in the DRC, while their neighbours Sierra Leone and Liberia increase border surveillance

Ramaphosa — ‘We are still near the beginning of this epidemic’

President’s address covered the twin pandemics of Covid-19 and the murder and rape of women ‘who were killed by men’

A patient is transferred by an ambulance to the Infectious Disease Centre of Princess Margaret Hospital on January 22, 2020 in Hong Kong, China. (Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)

Will the coronavirus cause a major growth slowdown in China?

The panic generated by the new coronavirus, 2019-nCov, which originated in Wuhan, one of China’s largest cities and a major domestic transport hub, reminds many of the fear and…

South Africa may still need donor support to fund expanded ARV roll out in the country.

#AIDS2016: SA pays its HIV bill but faces budget gap for expanded treatment

Research predicts a substantial shortfall in HIV funding in the next five years as the country looks to put millions more people on treatment.

Seek wisdom in the history of epidemics

Those who forget past social and other patterns of illness and stigma are doomed to repeat them.