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  • South Africa: One dead in diphtheria outbreak in Western Cape

    Source: https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/sou...-western-cape/


    One dead in diphtheria outbreak in Western Cape
    14 August 2017 - 15:39 By Katharine Child

    There have been four cases of vaccine-preventable diphtheria? a bacterial infection that can be deadly? in Helderberg in the Western Cape. One person has died.

    Two infected children were siblings and one infected person was their mother and the other their neighbour.

    It is not clear who has died.

    National Institute for Communicable Diseases consultant Professor Lucille Blumberg said "the four cases are an outbreak but there have been no new cases this week"...
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