National Polio Eradication Awareness Week, from April 6 to 12, is a reminder of the global effort to eradicate the polio virus from the world. Though continued efforts by global organisations have decreased the global infection rates, the threat of polio re-emerging remains.
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/ 12 February 2008
In December last year the public’s attention was drawn to the threat posed to society by resistant strains of tuberculosis (TB) when 49 patients infected with deadly and highly infectious strains of drug-resistant TB escaped from Jose Pearson Hospital near Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. Their escape made national headlines and highlighted again the need for swift and effective medical care.