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Hundreds of rabies cases detected in Eastern Cape
Tuesday 1 March 2022 - 4:04pm
JOHANNESBURG - There’s an extensive rabies outbreak in the Eastern Cape.
From the beginning of January 2021 to date, around 400 cases have been reported in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, 42 cases in Amathole district and 27 cases in OR Tambo district.
The Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform’s Vusimuzi Rozani says vaccinations and awareness are vital in trying to control the disease.
Vaccination call as rabies outbreak grows
Written by Marsha Dean
Published 16m ago
...According to Professor Andrew Leisewitz, Veterinary Specialist Physician at the University of Pretoria's Faculty of Veterinary Science, reports from the Eastern Cape's Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform have highlighted that since January 2021, more than 400 cases have been confirmed in dogs in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality alone, 42 cases in the Amathole district and 27 cases in the OR Tambo district in that province.
According to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), another hotspot is KwaZulu-Natal where eThekwini and King Cetshwayo districts have recorded close to 300 cases in dogs. The first rabies cases in decades have also been reported in dogs around Cape Town.
The NICD showed that the increase of human rabies cases in South Africa is related to outbreaks of rabies in dogs. As of December 14, 2021, a total of 19 laboratory-confirmed human rabies cases have been reported in South Africa for 2021...
