The Nipah virus outbreak in southern India this week has claimed 12 lives to date.According to the World Health Organization the virus is “a newly emerging zoonosis that causes severe disease in both animals and humans. The natural host of the virus are fruit bats of the pteropodidae family, pteropus…
The next deadly disease that will cause a global pandemic is coming, Bill Gates said on Friday at a discussion of epidemics. We’re not ready. An illness like the pandemic 1918 influenza could kill 30 million people within six months, Gates said, adding that the next disease might not even…
Polokwane – The doors of Limpopo’s Enterprise factory in Polokwane remain shut after the health department confirmed on Sunday that the source of a listeriosis outbreak had been traced back to the facility. After a two hour meeting on Monday, management told workers that the factory would be closed until…
Pretoria – The listeriosis death toll has risen to 61 since the outbreak was announced in early December last year, Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi said on Monday. Motsoaledi also said genome sequencing was being carried out to shed light on the source of the outbreak. Gauteng still has the…
