National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Tiger Brands may never know how a strain of bacteria linked by the government to the world’s deadliest outbreak of listeriosis entered its...
The department of agriculture, forestry and fisheries suspended meat imports from three Brazilian production facilities last week as a result of...
A Cape Town granny, aged 73, will require costly special care for the rest of her life – all because she and her dog enjoyed snacking on...
From its corner of the factory, the villain can see everything.
At midnight on 4 March, scientists at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) finally found the...
On Monday, the health department will inform the public about which specific processed meats to throw away and how to discard them safely without...
When Day Zero comes, a select group of people will gather at Cape Town’s Tygerberg Hospital, ready to respond to potential threats that could...
A mechanical hum fills the small room where James Bond is working to track down a killer. His name is printed in black letters on the side of his...
South Africa’s ongoing spate of listeria cases has claimed more than 60 lives in what the World Health Organisation (WHO) is now calling the...
Ever since Thomas Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States, got on a plane in Monrovia and travelled to Dallas with the virus...
Forty percent fewer South African children are being hospitalised for pneumonia and severe diarrhoeal disease than in 2009 due to the government's introduction of rotavirus and pneumococcal vaccines, according to Shabir Madhi, the executive director of the government's...
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